Saudi Arabia has overturned the death sentence of people involved in the killing of Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, claiming the children of the late journalist had forgiven the killers.
The Saudi government instead handed them sentences between seven and 20 years, overturning five earlier death sentences.
Khashoggi, highly critical of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (pictured below) in columns for the Washington Post, was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018.
Before his killing, Khashoggi had been living in exile in the United States for about a year. He then walked into his country’s consulate on October 2, 2018, for an appointment to pick up documents that would allow him to get married to his Turkish fiancee Hatice Cengiz. But sadly, he never walked out.