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A Saudi court has sentenced eight nationals for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi on Monday, AP reports. Why it matters: The trial has been widely criticized, including by an independent UN investigator. No senior official or anyone suspected of ordering the killing was found guilty. The Saudi…

A Saudi Arabian court has issued a final ruling in the case of the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, sentencing eight people to between seven and 20 years in prison. Jamal Khashoggi disappeared after going to the Saudi consulate to get papers for his marriage in October 2018.…

Saudi Arabia has given 20-year sentences to five people charged with killing Jamal Khashoggi, as it issued final verdicts in the case.Another person received a 10-year sentence, and two others were ordered to serve seven years. Five of the people were spared from execution after Mr Khashoggi's son, Salah Khashoggi,…

Saudi Arabia has convicted eight people over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, after his family announced pardons that spared five from execution. The Washington Post columnist was drugged and dismembered inside the kingdom's Istanbul consulate in 2018. On Monday the Riyadh Criminal Court issued final verdicts against eight people. Five…