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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 26 June 2019

Slain journalist’s fiancee wants Saudis pressured at G-20

By JAMEY KEATEN this incident. They have to Rights Council meeting.
Associated Press be punished in some way,” Khashoggi was killed inside
GENEVA (AP) — The fian- Cengiz said. “This incident the Istanbul consulate after
cee of slain journalist Jamal cannot remain unan- he went there to pick up a
Khashoggi said she hopes swered.” document he needed for
Group of 20 leaders put Asked what she hoped the them to get married. Cen-
pressure on Saudi Arabia G-20 leaders would do at giz, a Turkish citizen, said
at a summit this week to the summit on Friday and the possibility her fiancee
divulge more information Saturday, she said: “Pres- might not really be dead
about the killing, ratcheting sure can be put on Saudi haunts her because his
up a campaign for justice Arabia.” body hasn’t been found,
that she also brought to Trump told NBC’s “Meet the compounding her loss with
the U.N.’s top human rights Press” over the weekend “an unbelievably different
body Tuesday. that Khashoggi’s death has kind of trauma.”
Hatice Cengiz spoke at been investigated already She cited many of Calla-
a Human Rights Council and that when he and the mard’s findings, which were
event in Geneva about her Saudi prince spoke Thurs- released last week in a 101-
grief from Khashoggi’s Oc- Hatice Cengiz is pictured at the U.N.-backed Human Rights day the journalist’s killing page report that included
tober death at the Saudi Council in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. “didn’t come up.” an excruciatingly detailed
Associated Press
Consulate in Istanbul. In The independent U.N. ex- account of what were al-
an interview afterward, columnist’s grisly apparent dent Donald Trump and pert’s report came out the leged as Khashoggi’s final
she said Saudi authorities dismemberment by Saudi other world leaders to press day before, revealing new moments.
“have to be punished in agents and Crown Prince the issue at the G-20 sum- details. Speaking through a trans-
some way” for his slaying. Mohammed bin Salman’s mit in Osaka, Japan, where In Geneva, Cengiz and lator, Cengiz said the re-
An independent U.N. ex- possible role in the killing the crown prince is on the U.N. special rapporteur ex- port needed to be acted
pert said in a report made should be examined. guest list. pert Agnes Callamard ap- upon and noted the crown
public last week that Saudi Cengiz said in an interview “Saudi Arabia needs to peared together Tuesday prince may one day be
Arabia bears responsibil- with The Associated Press take steps in order for us at a 90-minute event on Saudi Arabia’s head of
ity for The Washington Post that she wants U.S. Presi- to find out the truth about the sidelines of a Human state.q

Top Austrian court says Ukrainian

oligarch can be sent to US

Associated Press and then freed on bail, can it did because any scheme
VIENNA (AP) — Austria’s be sent to the U.S. The de- would have impacted a
Supreme Court of Justice cision comes days after a Chicago-based company,
ruled Tuesday that a Ukrai- Chicago federal judge re- the American aviation gi-
nian oligarch who prosecu- jected a motion to dismiss ant Boeing. Boeing has said
tors say had business ties to an indictment accusing it considered doing busi-
President Donald Trump’s Firtash of a conspiracy to ness with Firtash but never
ex-campaign manager, pay bribes in India to mine followed through. It is not
Paul Manafort, can be titanium, which is used in accused of any wrongdo-
extradited to the United jet engines. Firtash denies ing. The Austria Press Agen-
States in a bribery case. wrongdoing and argued cy reported that Justice
Judges upheld a lower Vi- that the U.S. has no jurisdic- Minister Clemens Jabloner Ukrainian oligarch Dymitro Firtash waits for the start of his trial
enna court’s ruling that tion over crimes in India. will now have to decide at the Austrian supreme court in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, June
Dymitro Firtash, who was However, federal Judge whether the extradition 25, 2019.
arrested in Austria in 2014 Rebecca Pallmeyer ruled can go ahead. q Associated Press