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Khashoggi Fiancée Calls Saudi Murder Trial 'a Joke'

Pete Cobus

   WASHINGTON - The fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
   called last month's death sentences for five unnamed assailants a
   mockery of justice in her first ever English-language interview.

   "It's like a joke to me. It's unacceptable, really, because we don't
   know any details about this investigation," Hatice Cengiz told
   Oslo-based Skavlan in a television interview on Sunday.

   "They told us of only five men without names," she said. "And why they
   are five? More than 10 people came to Turkey!

   "We want real punishment, even for [those who gave the] orders," she
   told [1]host Fredrik Skavlan.

   A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five people to death and three others
   to prison in connection with the October 2018 killing of Khashoggi at
   Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul.
   

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