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42 Organizations: The Khashoggi Report Makes Clear; It's Time to Sanction MBS

March 2, 2021
in Dawn’s Advocacy, Feature, Saudi Arabia, Uncategorized
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In response to the release of the long-awaited declassification of the U.S. national intelligence report regarding the involvement of Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman ("MBS") in the murder of U.S. permanent resident and Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, 42 organizations said: 

"President Biden should use his power to impose the full range of sanctions available under the Global Magnitsky Act – including asset freezes and visa bans – on MBS as well as any other Saudi national implicated in the murder. Global Magnitsky Act sanctions should also be imposed on the leadership of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, which owns the airline and airplanes used to transport Jamal Khashoggi's assassins between Saudi Arabia and Turkey. 

"The U.S. should also reset its entire relationship with this brutal monarchy, starting with a ban on all arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The president should demand that Saudi Arabia lift the travel ban against women's rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul and release and drop all charges against all detained women's rights defenders.

President Biden should seek the unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience, including Islamic scholar Salman Alodah, aid worker Abdulrahman al-Sadhan, human right advocate Waleed Abu al-Khair, and members of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights (ACPRA).

Saudi Arabia has demonstrated a repeated pattern of abuse and harm, from the murder of Jamal Khashoggi to war crimes in Yemen to repression of its own citizens that both violate U.S. export controls and create an untenable situation for any continued security assistance. Finally, we urge the President to instruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation to open a criminal investigation into the murder of a U.S. Resident, as they have for other Americans executed abroad.

"The release of the ODNI report is a much-welcomed act of transparency, but it will ring hollow unless accountability follows. There must be equal application of the law to all people, no matter how high the position in government an individual may hold. It is critical for the U.S. government to send a clear message to MBS and all other world leaders: this heinous crime will not be forgotten, and there will be justice."

ALQST for Human Rights · American Friends Service Committee · Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain · Avaaz · Center for Constitutional Rights · Center for International Policy · Clean Energy Action – Colorado · Clearinghouse on Women's Issues · CODEPINK · Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) · Demand Progress Education Fund · Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) · Empower Our Future · Freedom Forward · Friends Committee on National Legislation · Global Exchange · Human Rights Watch · Institute for Policy Studies, New Internationalism Project · International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) · Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns · MENA Rights Group · MoveOn · New York Center for Foreign Policy Affairs · Nonviolence International · Pax Christi USA · Peace Action · Progressive Democrats of America · Raise the Voices / Civic Works · Rethinking Foreign Policy · Revolving Door Project · Saudi American Justice Project · September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows · Shadow World Investigations · Sustainable Energy & Economy Network · The Freedom Initiative · The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)· The Quincy Institute · The United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society · United for Peace and Justice · Win Without War · Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation 

Background: The declassified ODNI report, released last week, reveals for the first time the evidence that the Central Intelligence Agency relied on to conclude that MBS approved Jamal Khashoggi's murder. Last week, the Department of State announced the "Khashoggi Ban," a new visa restriction policy pursuant to section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.  The Khashoggi Ban allows the State Department to impose visa restrictions on individuals who, acting on behalf of a foreign government, are believed to have been directly engaged in serious, extraterritorial counter-dissident activities. 

The Trump administration had refused to make the ODNI report public despite a statute ordering it to do so. Instead, it only released a classified version of the document to Congress on February 20, 2020.

In November 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Saud al-Qahtani, his subordinate Maher Mutreb, Saudi Consul General Mohammed Alotaibi, and 14 other Saudis under the Global Magnitsky Act for the murder of Khashoggi.

These designations block any of their property within U.S. jurisdiction and ban U.S. persons from transacting with them or their assets. The State Department also issued travel bans against them based on these sanctions, barring them and their immediate families from U.S. soil. There is no reason why MBS should not be subject to the same, having approved the crime for which these individuals were sanctioned.

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Photo credit: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Riyadh, on October 24, 2017. The Crown Prince pledged a "moderate, open" Saudi Arabia, breaking with ultra-conservative clerics in favour of an image catering to foreign investors and Saudi youth. "We are returning to what we were before — a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world," he said at the economic forum in Riyadh. / AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images)

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