{"id":380260,"date":"2018-10-09T12:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/be-transparent-with-khashoggi-probe\/"},"modified":"2018-10-09T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:55:16","slug":"be-transparent-with-khashoggi-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/be-transparent-with-khashoggi-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Be \u2018transparent\u2019 with Khashoggi probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called on Saudi Arabia to back a &#8220;thorough investigation&#8221; into the disappearance of prominent Saudi dissident and journalist\u00a0Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call on the government of Saudi Arabia to support a thorough investigation of Mr. Khashoggi&#8217;s disappearance and to be transparent about the results of that investigation,&#8221; Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after the Washington Post urged the US government to &#8220;demand answers&#8221; from Saudi Arabia about Khashoggi\u00a0\u2013 an opinion writer for the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States must now make a concerted effort to determine all the facts about Mr. Khashoggi&#8217;s disappearance,&#8221; the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2018\/10\/05\/576135\/Washington-Post-prints-empty-column-for-missing-dissent-Saudi-journalist\">newspaper<\/a>\u00a0said in an editorial late Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Khashoggi was known for his critical views on Riyadh. He lived in self-imposed exile in the US\u00a0since September 2017, when he left Saudi Arabia amid a\u00a0crackdown&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/09\/576494\/Pompeo-calls-on-Saudi-Arabia-to-back-thorough-investigation-into-missing-journalist\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has called on Saudi Arabia to back a &#8220;thorough investigation&#8221; into the disappearance of prominent Saudi dissident and journalist\u00a0Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. &#8220;We call on the government of Saudi Arabia to support a thorough investigation of Mr. Khashoggi&#8217;s disappearance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}