Intel: How Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee is keeping the pressure on Saudi Arabia
Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee is determined to keep his legacy alive and well — and that starts with making sure Washington holds Saudi Arabia accountable for killing him.
Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee is determined to keep his legacy alive and well — and that starts with making sure Washington holds Saudi Arabia accountable for killing him.
“In the early days, President [Donald] Trump said that this would be solved,” and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “talked about how unacceptable this was,” Hatice Cengiz told the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s human rights panel today. “But several months later we see that nothing has been done and that’s why I’m here today.”
Why it matters: Cengiz is working with several of Khashoggi’s former associates to establish his brainchild: an organization called Democracy in the Arab World Now (DAWN). The fledgling group’s early members include Asim Ghafoor, a lawyer; Sarah Leah Whitson, the Middle East director for Human Rights Watch; and former Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va.
As Al-Monitor reported last week in its lobbying newsletter, DAWN has paid Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton $50,000 to lobby Congress so far this year. Robert Harmala, a lobbyist registered on the account, and six of Khashoggi’s former associates donated a total of $36,300 to human rights panel chairwoman Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., in February.
