Iran Press/Asia: At the hearing in Istanbul – only the second session of a trial which opened four months ago – the court accepted a second indictment adding six defendants to the list of 20 Saudi officials already being tried in absentia.
At Tuesday's hearing in Istanbul, only the second session of a trial which opened four months ago, the court accepted a second indictment adding six defendants to the list of 20 Saudi officials already being tried in absentia.
The latest indictment accuses a vice consul and an attache of "premeditated murder with monstrous intent". The four others, also Saudi nationals, were charged with destroying, concealing or tampering with evidence.
The court heard testimony from Egyptian opposition activist Ayman Noor, a friend of Khashoggi's, before adjourning the case to March 4 and extending a process which has kept Khashoggi's killing in the public eye and further strained relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
The first indictment accused two top Saudi officials, former deputy head of Saudi Arabia's general intelligence Ahmed al-Asiri and former royal court adviser Saud al-Qahtani, of instigating murder.
In September, a Saudi court jailed eight people for between seven and 20 years over the killing, in a trial that critics said lacked transparency. None of the defendants was named.
Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018. Turkish officials believe his body was dismembered and removed, while his remains have not been found.
The Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder in November 2018, which was carried out on the direct orders of Mohammad bin Salman, sparked widespread global pressure against the Saudi government and the Crown Prince.
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