{"id":381913,"date":"2018-10-21T20:06:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-says-saudi-account-of-khashoggis-death-not-credible\/"},"modified":"2018-10-21T20:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T19:06:12","slug":"presstv-uk-says-saudi-account-of-khashoggis-death-not-credible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-uk-says-saudi-account-of-khashoggis-death-not-credible\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-UK says Saudi account of Khashoggi&#8217;s death not credible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United Kingdom says that Saudi Arabia&#8217;s explanation of how dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the kingdom&#8217;s consulate in Istanbul was not credible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The remarks by Brexit minister Dominic Raab came on Sunday two days after Riyadh had confessed that Khashoggi was murdered.<\/p>\n<p>In a Friday announcement, Saudi Arabia said that the preliminary results of its investigation indicated Khashoggi had been killed in a &#8220;fight with people who met him in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Raab told the BBC that &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s credible,&#8221; adding there was a &#8220;serious question mark over the account that has been given.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We support the Turkish investigation into it and the British government wants to see people held to account for that death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s narrative of Khashoggi&#8217;s murder has been criticized by several other countries too. They demanded greater clarity regarding the case.<\/p>\n<p>Since the very early hours of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/21\/577652\/UK-Saudi-Arabia-Jamal-Khashoggi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom says that Saudi Arabia&#8217;s explanation of how dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the kingdom&#8217;s consulate in Istanbul was not credible. The remarks by Brexit minister Dominic Raab came on Sunday two days after Riyadh had confessed that Khashoggi was murdered. In a Friday announcement, Saudi Arabia said that the preliminary [&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-381913","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\/381913","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=381913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}