The fiancee of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Hatice Cengiz, is set to testify on Capitol Hill, in an effort to shed a light on the importance of a free press and the dangers facing those who report on human rights violations.
The fiancee of slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Hatice Cengiz, is set to testify on Capitol Hill Thursday, in an effort to shed a light on the importance of a free press and the dangers facing those who report on human rights violations.
"We still don't know where Jamal's body is," Cengiz told ABC News's Ian Pannell during her first American television appearance in late October."There is no explanation about this. He did not have a funeral yet. This is not acceptable in Islamic rules."The grieving fiancee has previously called for the case to receive political attention.
On Capitol Hill, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have blasted the Trump administration for continuing to defend the Saudi government in the wake of the killing. Members of Congress have pressed for more briefings about what actually happened to Khashoggi, and the Senate unanimously passed a resolution in late 2018 saying the crown prince was responsible for Khashoggi's killing.
"I was really honored and proud when this powerful, great journalist and author got into contact with a researcher like me and agreed to do the interview, and immediately a warm dialogue started between us immediately got started," Cengiz told ABC News. "I didn’t want to believe," she said."That was the first day I said to myself perhaps there could be a tragedy. I wanted to believe that he was alive until the end."
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