Washington DC in symbolic protest: The street in front of the Saudi embassy will be named after Jamal Khushkji
The city council has announced that a street on New Hampshire Avenue will be named after the Saudi journalist, who according to Western intelligence estimates, was murdered at the invitation of Regent Ben Salman
The Washington DC City Council has announced that the street in front of the Saudi embassy will be called “Derech Jamal Khushkji” – a Saudi journalist who was assassinated about three years ago by Saudi government agents.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khushkji (Photo: AP)
Last Tuesday, the council unanimously voted for the name of the 213-foot-long New Hampshire Avenue that runs between the embassy and the Watergate compound.
As you may recall, in October 2018, Husqji arrived at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, to sign documents that would allow him to marry his fiancée – where he was murdered by government agents, as various intelligence sources believe. The journalist was known as a sharp critic of the policies of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“Through his press, Jamal Khushkji was an ardent supporter of democracy, human rights and the rule of law,” the council report said. It can be hidden or suppressed. “
The council’s bill is expected to be signed and thus be approved by Mayor Muriel Bauer.
Former President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (Photo: Getty Images)
In a similar protest move, in 2018 Washington, D.C. called the street near the Russian embassy named after Boris Namtsov, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin who had been assassinated in Moscow three years earlier.
According to the investigation into Hashukaji’s death, the killers were a team of men closely related to the palace of Regent Ben Salman, who is accused by Western intelligence of ordering the murder.
About six months ago, a report in the New York Times revealed that four of those involved in the murder had received professional military training in the United States. With the approval of the US State Department, they participated in training conducted by the Tier 1 group, which is owned by a private security company, and provides protection to leaders in Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. government responded to the publication that it could not comment on such reports, but a senior official in the training company confirmed this, saying the US State Department and other government agencies were responsible for examining foreign forces undergoing training on U.S. soil.
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