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A Saudi Arabian court on Monday jailed eight people for between seven and 20 years for the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, state media reported.

Khashoggi was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018.

Turkey will follow the case of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing “regardless how it goes”, the country’s Communications Director, Fahrettin Altun, said on Tuesday.

Saudi Deputy Public Prosecutor and spokesman, Shalaan al-Shalaan, reading out the verdict in the trial, said the court dismissed charges against the remaining three of the 11 people that had been on trial, finding them not guilty

The US on Tuesday barred from entering the country Mohammed al Otaibi, who served as the Saudi consul general in Istanbul when Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in his consulate in 2018, the State Department said.

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said he bears responsibility for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 by Saudi operatives “because it happened under my watch,” according to a PBS documentary to be broadcast next week.

Trump said he was told by the prince that at least 13 people are being prosecuted over the death, which the president said was a “horrible” event

UN investigator, Agnes Callamard, on Wednesday, urged the UN Human Rights Council to create tools to prevent and probe targeted killings of dissidents abroad.

The UN investigator into the killing of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, on Wednesday called on countries to invoke universal jurisdiction for international crime and make arrests if the responsibility of individuals is proven.

Evidence suggests Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman and other senior Saudi officials are liable for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a UN rights investigator said on Wednesday.

A rights activist and vocal critic of Saudi Arabia, Iyad El-Baghdadi, who is under police protection in Norway, on Monday urged Norwegian authorities to help protect his family, amid undisclosed threats from Saudi authorities.

The children of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, on Wednesday denied discussing any sort of settlement over his killing by Saudi agents.

The US government will continue investigating the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a visit to Hungary on Monday.

Agnes Callamard, UN Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial Summary or Arbitrary Executions, said this in Geneva in a statement after a trip to Turkey

A UN expert investigating the murder of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, has met his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, in Turkey.

Pompeo said this in Washington that the US was still investigating the killing.

Turkish officials said last week that the prosecutor’s office had concluded there was “strong suspicion” that Saud al-Qahtani, a top aide to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and General Ahmed al-Asiri, who served as deputy head of foreign intelligence, were among the planners of Khashoggi’s October 2 killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The vote is intended to penalise Riyadh, but the senators are struggling to agree on how best to do so.

US actor and filmmaker, Sean Penn, and his crew on Wednesday did some shooting in front of the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul reportedly for a documentary on the killing of Saudi Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, inside the mission.