{"id":16917,"date":"2020-10-02T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=16917"},"modified":"2020-10-02T10:54:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T05:54:57","slug":"khashoggi-fiancee-urges-leaders-to-skip-g20-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/16917","title":{"rendered":"Khashoggi fiancee urges leaders to skip G20 summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, called on world leaders Thursday not to participate in this year\u2019s G20 summit in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>In an article in publish on local news paper of US on the eve of the second anniversary of Khashoggi&#8217;s murder, Cengiz recalled that Saudi Arabia will be hosting the 15th annual summit of leaders of the Group of 20 economies in November.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most logical thing for world leaders to do today\u00a0 the best punishment for the Saudi crown prince right now, even if it comes too late\u00a0 is not to attend this virtual summit,&#8221; said Cengiz in her piece titled &#8220;We have been deprived of Jamal Khashoggi\u2019s voice. But his silence says it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was referring to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who likely ordered the killing of the journalist, according to reports by the UN and other independent organizations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This would be a way to avoid giving any additional legitimacy to the current Saudi administration that bears the responsibility for this murder and is still managing to escape its consequences,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Khashoggi, a columnist for the US based news paper, was killed and dismembered by a group of Saudi operatives shortly after he entered the country&#8217;s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 2, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>His body was never recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The summit will be held virtually on Nov. 21\u201322 and chaired by King Salman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0 Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, called on world leaders Thursday not to participate in this year\u2019s G20 summit in Riyadh. In an article in publish on local news paper of US on the eve of the second anniversary of Khashoggi&#8217;s murder, Cengiz recalled that Saudi Arabia will be hosting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saudi-arab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917","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=16917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16918,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16917\/revisions\/16918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}