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US imposes sanctions, visa bans on Saudis for Khashoggi’s killing

MM News Staff by MM News Staff
February 27, 2021

WASHINGTON: Biden administration announced sanctions and visa bans targeting Saudi Arabian citizens over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but stopped short of imposing sanctions on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself.

US President Joe Biden’s actions in the first weeks of his administration appear aimed at fulfilling campaign promises to realign Saudi ties after critics accused his predecessor, Donald Trump, of giving the Arab ally and major oil producer a pass on gross human rights violations.

Relations have been severely strained for years by the war in Yemen and the killing inside a Saudi consulate of Khashoggi, a US resident who wrote columns for the Washington Post critical of the crown prince’s policies. The decisions appear designed to preserve a working relationship with the crown prince even though US intelligence concluded that he approved the operation to capture or kill Khashoggi.

The 59-year old Saudi journalist was lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 and killed by a team of operatives linked to the crown prince. They then dismembered his body and his remains have never been found.

The US Treasury Department placed sanctions on the former deputy Saudi intelligence chief, Ahmed al-Asiri, and announced a sanctions designation on the Saudi Royal Guard’s rapid intervention force, or RIF. The RIF was singled out in the declassified US intelligence report for its role in Khashoggi’s killing.

The move freezes any US assets that the Saudi individuals held and generally bars Americans from dealing with them. “Those involved in the abhorrent killing of Jamal Khashoggi must be held accountable,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.

The United States also announced visa restrictions against 76 Saudi citizens as part of a new policy aimed at nations that carry out activities against journalists and dissidents beyond their borders. Such activities include efforts to suppress, harass, surveil, threaten or harm them.

The visa ban will also be selectively applied to family members, officials said. “As a matter of safety for all within our borders, perpetrators targeting perceived dissidents on behalf of any foreign government should not be permitted to reach American soil,” Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement.

A second US official noted that, although Saudi citizens were named in the first use of what the State Department called the “Khashoggi Ban” on visas, “it’s really a new global tool.”

Additionally, the US State Department said it will start documenting in its annual human rights report any programs by Saudi Arabia and other countries that monitor, harass or target dissidents and journalists.

Biden administration officials say the decisions on sanctions and visa bans will send a clear message about how the United States wants to see the future US-Saudi relationship.

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