House panel advances bipartisan Saudi sanctions bill over Khashoggi murder
The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously advances a bill that would sanction Saudis involved in the Jamal Khashoggi slaying.
Congress made significant headway today on its long-awaited response to the Jamal Khashoggi murder in the form of Saudi sanctions legislation.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted unanimously today to advance the Saudi Arabia Human Rights and Accountability Act, introduced by Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J.
The bill requires the intelligence community to list every “foreign person” complicit in Riyadh’s assassination of Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, mandating sanctions for every individual on the list.
“Few dictatorships are brazen enough to reach out beyond their borders to kill their citizens living overseas,” Malinowski said ahead of the vote. “It’s important for us to remember that despite all of the controversy and anger following the case of Mr. Khashoggi, the Saudis do not appear to have gotten the message. Our intelligence community, since the killing of Khashoggi, has had to warn three individuals living overseas — including an American citizen living in the United States — of threats from the Saudi government.”
