How the world reacted to US report implicating Saudi Crown Prince in Khashoggi murder
The vocal critic of Mohammed Bin Salman, Jamal Khashoggi was mysteriously murdered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2018
By Usama Hazari| Updated: 1st March 2021 9:00 pm IST Jamal Khashoggi.
Hyderabad: The latest U.S. intelligence report, which claimed that the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation to kill or capture journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has drawn reactions from across the world with several people calling for action against the Crown Prince.
A vocal critic of Mohammed Bin Salman, Jamal Khashoggi was mysteriously murdered in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2018. The former advisor to the Saudi government and US-based journalist was living in a self-imposed exile since 2017.
The two Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michale Spavor were detained by China in December 2018 and charged with spying last year. They were arrested just days after Meng Wanzhou a top financial executive of Chinese telecom company Huawei was detained in Vancouver at the US’s request. Canada slammed the move as “arbitrary” while China denied that the arrests of the two Canadian nationals took place in retaliation for Meng’s detention.
Meng Wanzhou (Getty Images)
The Free Michael Spavor website said Spavor was “behind bars, without his family and without access to lawyers”. “Michael is an earnest, genuine, and impossibly fun person, who we believe has been detained in error,” the site, updated last year, said.
“Canada has been actively engaged since the start of the crisis in supporting the democratic aspirations of the people of Belarus and a peaceful resolution to the current political situation,” Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneu said in a statement on Sunday. “We will continue to advocate for a genuine and inclusive national dialogue to ensure that the future of Belarus reflects the will of its citizens.”
Andrey Dashkov, director and chair of the board of the Vancouver chapter of iHelpBelarus.org, a pro-democracy non-profit, said his organization is looking forward to working with the federal government to make sure that the funding is “used for a maximum positive effect.”