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Khashoggi widow asks Saudi prince to meet her to apologize for journalist's death

Agence France-Presse · Nov 19, 2025, 3:48 AM

TURKEY-SAUDI-MURDER-KHASHOGGI Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of murdered Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi, answers journalists' questions outside the courthouse, after the courts confirmed a halt of the trial in absentia of 26 suspects linked to the killing Khashoggi and its transfer to Saudi, in Istanbul on April 7, 2022. Hatice Cengiz said on April 7, 2022, she would appeal a Turkish court's decision to hand to Saudi Arabia a case involving the suspects linked to his killing. Khashoggi the 59-year-old journalist was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 in a gruesome murder that shocked the world. — OZAN KOSE / AFP

The widow of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi called Tuesday on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to personally apologize after he said at the White House that his killing inside a consulate was a mistake.

"The Crown Prince said he was sorry so he should meet me, apologize and compensate me for the murder of my husband," Hanan Elatr Khashoggi wrote on X.