A Vanity Fair investigation revealed how Saudi Arabia abducts, repatriates and sometimes murders citizens it regards as enemies to the Middle East country.
The grisly murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, shocked the world and highlighted the repressive nature of the regime. Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 to get paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancée and disappeared.
Disturbing details have since emerged over the way Riyadh hunts down dissidents using hitmen with no consideration of national sovereignty and international law.
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The Vanity Fair investigative piece uncovered unsettling details about the way Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s Saudi regime uses unorthodox and malicious methods to capture and silence critics.
It showed how dozens of dissidents, including citizens of Western nations like Canada and the U.S. were silenced.
In one incident, Saudi Arabia redirected the private jet of out-of-favor Prince Sultan bin Turki in mid-air, the report said. The prince hasn’t been seen in public since.
Bin Turki fell out of favor with the royals after accusing them of corruption, criticizing the kingdom’s human rights records, and suing his cousin in court for allegedly kidnapping him in 2013.
“If I disappear you know what happened to me,” he told The Independent earlier in 2016.
Journalist Ayman Mohyeldin, who did the investigative story, pieced together a picture of a kingdom out of control under Bin Salman.
