{"id":65336,"date":"2022-11-18T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=65336"},"modified":"2022-11-18T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T17:00:26","slug":"biden-administration-requests-immunity-for-saudi-crown-prince-in-khashoggi-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=65336","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Requests Immunity for Saudi Crown Prince in Khashoggi Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/biden-administration-requests-immunity-saudi-crown-prince-khashoggi-killing-beyond-ironic\">Fox<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Biden administration declared Thursday night the official standing of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s crown prince should grant him immunity in lawsuits for his alleged role in the brutal killing of a U.S.-based journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The request is a controversial one after President Biden promised &#8220;consequences&#8221; on his campaign trail for Saudi officials following the 2018 death of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>Hatice Cengiz, Khashoggi&#8217;s fianc\u00e9e, and Democracy for the Arab World Now filed a lawsuit against Saudi officials, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, for their roles in the murder of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, the State Department called the decision to try to protect the Saudi crown prince from U.S. courts in Khashoggi&#8217;s killing &#8220;purely a legal determination,&#8221; citing &#8220;longstanding precedent.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: Fox: The Biden administration declared Thursday night the official standing of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s crown prince should grant him immunity in lawsuits for his alleged role in the brutal killing of a U.S.-based journalist.\u00a0 The request is a controversial one after President Biden promised &#8220;consequences&#8221; on his campaign trail for Saudi officials following the 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22,8,17,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assassination","category-dictatorship","category-economy","category-energy","category-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65337,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65336\/revisions\/65337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}