The British government has called on Saudi Arabia to go beyond pure hypotheses while investigating the mysterious death of a dissident journalist.
A spokesman of British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday that Saudi Arabia must provide the world with “urgent clarification” on how Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the kingdom’s consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul earlier this month.
“There remains an urgent need for clarification of what happened beyond the hypotheses raised so far in the Saudi investigation,” the spokesman told reports on Monday.
May’s government has been accused of doing “too little” in dealing with Saudi Arabia since the kingdom admitted last week that Khashoggi had been killed on October 2 in its Turkish diplomatic mission, where he was seeking documents for a forthcoming marriage.
The death of Khashoggi, an exiled journalist who had been living in the United States since last year, has sparked…