{"id":10181,"date":"2019-10-02T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=10181"},"modified":"2019-10-02T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T09:15:00","slug":"legal-petition-urges-icc-investigate-saudi-crown-prince-over-khashoggi-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/10181","title":{"rendered":"Legal Petition Urges ICC Investigate Saudi Crown Prince over Khashoggi Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">A US-based law firm\u00a0 Fein &amp; Delvalle has filed a petition at the International Criminal Court (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/icc.html\">ICC<\/a>) to have Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) investigated for alleged &#8220;crimes against humanity&#8221;, including the murder of Saudi journalist\u00a0 Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>The petition was filed on behalf of an anonymous human rights organisation, whose identity has been redacted in the filing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Khashoggi, 59, was killed a year ago by a team of Saudi agents in the kingdom&#8217;s consulate in Istanbul and his dismembered body has not been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Saudi Arabia has consistently denied that MBS ordered the killing, but a UN investigator has said there was &#8220;credible evidence&#8221; of the crown prince&#8217;s liability that warrants further investigation while the CIA has reportedly concluded \u00a0that the killing was probably ordered by the prince.<\/p>\n<p>In a petition filed to the ICC&#8217;s chief prosecutor in July and made public on Wednesday, the anniversary of Khashoggi&#8217;s killing,<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear whether the Hague-based court would respond to the petition, as it only has jurisdiction over crimes committed on the territory of its member states. Neither Saudi Arabia nor Turkey is a member of the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US-based law firm\u00a0 Fein &amp; Delvalle has filed a petition at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to have Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) investigated for alleged &#8220;crimes against humanity&#8221;, including the murder of Saudi journalist\u00a0 Jamal Khashoggi. The petition was filed on behalf of an anonymous human rights organisation, whose identity has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10183,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10181\/revisions\/10183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}