Pak Sahafat – The widow of Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist criticizing the policies of the Saudi government, who was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, said: Turkey must hand over the evidence it has about my husband’s murder to me, and our calls were intercepted by Riyadh’s order with the Zionist terrorist “Pegasus”.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report, Hanan al-Attar, the widow of Jamal Khashoggi, wrote in the Guardian newspaper in an article on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of her husband’s murder by Saudi security agents in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul: Four years ago today, the world lost an intellectual leader, journalist, husband, father, and grandfather, and as his widow, covered up exactly what happened in the days and weeks leading up to his assassination by the Saudi crown prince. I suffered heavy damage.
According to her, the key elements of the evidence that answers the questions of Jamal’s murder case are in her personal devices, i.e. two mobile phones, a laptop and a tablet.
Khashoggi’s widow added in this article that these devices reveal details of Jamal’s murder that were not disclosed before and are necessary to know the full truth and advance the goals and achieve justice in the case of Khashoggi’s murder, but these devices are in the possession of the Turkish government.
According to Hanan, during the important work done by human rights organizations including Amnesty International, she realized that Her personal devices were targeted by the Pegasus spy software belonging to the Israeli programming company NSO, and without the knowledge of the victim (Jamal Khashoggi) Doriben and Soot (Goshi Khashoggi’s phone) were used.
Based on what she wrote in this article, further investigation of Khashoggi’s wife’s devices showed that they were hacked by Pegasus spy software as well as another spy software called “Cellebrite” and these software downloaded and tracked all his communications with his late husband.
She added: All this happened in 2018 and before Jamal’s murder. When I was subjected to horrific interrogation by UAE intelligence officials for about 72 hours.
Hanan clarified that she and her husband discussed their plans for the future, including travel, in communications through these devices.
Hanan raised the question whether they were aware of all movements and travel plans of Jamal in this way? Wrote: I suspect that Jamal’s phones were equally hacked by NSO’s Pegasus spy software at the behest of the Saudi government.
She added that in 2019, Agnes Callamard, the former special rapporteur of the United Nations, who was investigating the murder of Khashoggi, asked the Turkish authorities to provide information on Jamal’s mobile phones and devices that had already been examined.
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Khashoggi’s widow added: “I was hoping that during the trial in Turkey, the prosecutor would reveal the original documents that he collected from Jamal’s devices, but this never happened, because the trial in Turkey was stopped and transferred to Saudi Arabia without any response.”
She said: Recently, through her lawyer, she submitted a request to the Turkish ambassador in the United States to receive these devices, as she had requested from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but to no avail.
Hanan continued: I have asked her (my lawyer) to officially ask Turkey to return this key evidence, considering the impending legal actions in the United States.
In the end, she clarified: it is very important for the realization of justice to know whether Jamal’s devices are infected with spyware belonging to the NSO group or not. Turkey should deliver these devices now.
In this link, Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee Khadijah Cengiz, who was supposed to sign her marriage certificate at the Istanbul consulate, reacted to the tweet that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken published on the fourth anniversary of her fiancé’s murder.
Blinken wrote on his Twitter account: The murder of Jamal Khashoggi four years ago was an attack on freedom of speech everywhere. As we mourn Jamal, we will continue to stand with human rights defenders, journalists and others to support basic freedoms around the world by supporting them.
Khadija Cengiz responded to this tweet: I think you should be pragmatic instead of sending a memorial message.
Jamal Khashoggi, a journalist opposed to Bin Salman, who wrote for the Washington Post, was kidnapped and brutally murdered after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
This 59-year-old journalist, as a critic of the Saudi ruling body, was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, a week after he criticized the Saudi authorities for their silence against the insults of the American president.
Earlier, in a series of articles in the Washington Post newspaper, Khashoggi criticized Saudi Arabia’s policies regarding the Qatar crisis, the severing of relations with Canada, the war against Yemen, and the Saudi authorities’ treatment of the media and civil activists, especially human rights defenders.