The Biden administration said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be granted sovereign immunity in a case brought by the fiancée of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The Biden administration said in a U.S. federal court filing on Thursday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be granted sovereign immunity in a civil case brought by the fiancée of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a stance that human rights advocates condemned as a betrayal of the president’s vow to hold the Saudi leader accountable.
Rights groups pointed out that while bin Salman, commonly known as MBS, has been the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia for years, his formal status as the country’s prime minister — a position traditionally held by the king — was enshrinedin what observers called an apparent scheme to ensure his immunity from legal action.
“Rather than rewarding MBS with impunity for his merciless crimes, Biden should have stood up for American values and legal principles,” Whitson added. “Whether or not MBS succeeds in worming out of this lawsuit, we will extract in discovery against his co-defendants every last bit of evidence about his role in this murders. Try as he might, he will not succeed in burying his crime.
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