Bin Salman accepts responsibility for killing journalist Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia's Prince Muhammad Bin Salman has claimed responsibility in the murder of journalist Yamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabia Consulate last year in Istanbul.

This event has been performed under my responsibility. I take full responsibility”, declared Mohammed Bin Salman.

The statements that Prince Bin Selman has issued regarding Khasogg's murder during a December 2018 electric automobile race in Riyadh for producer of news programme “Frontline” journalist Martin Smith on the American TV channel PBS are included in the programme's promotional fragment, which will be released on October 1st.

It's pointed out that in the promotional fragment, Bin Salman has for the first time answered questions about the killing of Khashogg, and that parts of the Bin Salman dialogue with Smith will appear on TV without using the sight and voice of bin Salman.

Expressions have been used that Smith stressed that when I asked him about the role in Khasogg's murder he replied: “This event was committed to my own responsibility. I take full responsibility, because it happened under my responsibility”

While in the question “how could such a thing happen without your knowledge?”, Smith explains that Bin Salman has answered: “In Saudi Arabia live 20 million people. There are 3 million state employees”.

And in Smith's question that “can they get one of your planes? That is their responsibility. They have the authority to do so”.

Khahoggi murder

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Arabia Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, where he had gone for wedding processes.

In a 101-page report released in June by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Saudi Arabia was charged with deliberately and preambled murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Also stressed in the report, there is reliable evidence for investigating high-level officials, including Saudi Arabia's prince, Muhammad bin Salman.

In the report, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was invited to launch an additional criminal investigation into Khashogg's murder and that sanctions related to journalist Khashoggi should include the prince and his personal assets abroad.