{"id":2631,"date":"2019-02-09T08:15:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T08:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2019-02-09T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T08:15:06","slug":"saudi-dismisses-khashoggi-murder-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=2631","title":{"rendered":"Saudi dismisses Khashoggi murder claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Riyadh, <\/strong>Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir has rejected the attempt to link Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>He told reporters in Washington that the claims were &#8220;baseless&#8221; and those involved will be held accountable, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, citing Al Arabiya TV.<\/p>\n<p>Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey&#8217;s Istanbul in October 2018, and a number of top Saudi officials involved in the case were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud also ordered to re-structure the intelligence authority. Last month, Saudi Public Prosecution demanded capital punishment against five out of 11 suspects in the murder case.<\/p>\n<p>The operation wasn&#8217;t authorised, Al-Jubeir affirmed, highlighting &#8220;no order was given to conduct this operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh, Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir has rejected the attempt to link Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He told reporters in Washington that the claims were &#8220;baseless&#8221; and those involved will be held accountable, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday, citing Al Arabiya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}