The arrest of Khaled al-Otaibi, a former member of the Saudi royal guard, in Paris today on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is excellent news. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) targeted Otaibi in a criminal complaint it filed with the Paris prosecutor’s office in 2019. RSF reactivates the proceeding immediately.
Otaibi was arrested at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport on the basis of an international arrest warrant issued by Turkey, which suspects him of participating in Khashoggi’s murder in the Saudi con
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