Prosecutor requesting death penalty for 5 over Jamal Khashoggi’s killing

Baku. 15 November. REPORT.AZ/ Saudi Arabia says 11 suspects were indicted, prosecutors are requesting death penalty for 5 over writer Jamal Khashoggi's killing, Report informs citing the Hurriyet.

Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and vocal dissident, died Oct. 2 after being drugged by the accused and then dismembered, a spokesman for public prosecutor Saud Al Mojeb’s office in Riyadh said in the first Saudi acknowledgement of the manner of his killing.

The journalist's body parts were then handed over to an agent outside the consulate grounds, the spokesman said.