The US government recommended on Thursday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was immune from legal action over the 2018 murder of a dissident journalist, according to court documents.
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The killing four years ago of Khashoggi, a Saudi insider-turned-critic, in the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate temporarily turned Prince Mohammed — widely known as MBS — into a pariah in the West. “The United States respectfully informs the Court that Defendant Mohammed bin Salman, the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, is the sitting head of government and, accordingly, is immune from this suit,” read the submission to the US District Court for the District of Columbia, from the administration of President Joe Biden.
“The Biden admin went out of its way to recommend immunity for MBS and shield him from accountability,” said DAWN’s executive director Sarah Leah Whitson. Prince Mohammed, who has been the kingdom’s de facto ruler for several years, previously served as deputy prime minister as well as defence minister under his father King Salman.
“After breaking its pledge to punish MBS for Khashoggi’s assassination, the Biden administration has not only shielded MBS from accountability in US courts, but rendered him more dangerous than ever with a license to kill more detractors without consequences,” he said.
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