Saudi crown prince girds for legal battle in a changing Washington over human rights allegations
Attorneys defending Saudi Arabia from lawsuits by 9/11 families will represent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against allegations in Washington that he targeted a former top Saudi intelligence official for assassination to prevent the spilling of secrets about his climb to power.
The legal moves in recent weeks come as the Saudi government digs in to protect the kingdom from critics in a pair of U.S. lawsuits filed since August against the crown prince and braces for possible political changes from Tuesday’s U.S. elections.
The separate cases accuse bin Salman of ordering the death and dismemberment of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 and of plotting to order a similar assassination of a former official and U.S. intelligence ally, Saad Aljabri.
The cases allege flagrant human rights violations, torture and murder by America’s oldest ally in the Middle East, and were brought by David Pressman for Aljabri and by Keith M. Harper for Khashoggi’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, and a human rights group he founded. Both attorneys are former Obama administration ambassadors to the United Nations launching a new human rights and global strategy practice with the Jenner & Block law firm.
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