A/HRC/41/CRP.1
Name
Government Position
Arrival Date
Thaar Ghaleb Alharbi
Promoted from major to lieutenant for his
courage during an attack on the Crown
Prince’s Palace
October 2
Saif Saad Alqahtani
Worked as a training specialist in the Saudi October 2
Air Force
Worked in the Office of the Crown Prince
Turki Musharraf
Alshehri
Intelligence Officer
October 2
88.
According to witness testimonies obtained by the Chief Public Prosecutor in
Istanbul37, the Consul General ordered non-Saudi staff at the Consulate to either not report to
work on 2 October or to leave the Consulate at noon. Other witnesses recalled that they were
told to remain in their offices and not to leave the Consulate because of a planned arrival of
an investigator or a diplomatic meeting. Similarly, the staff at the Consul General’s
Residence were told not to enter or to leave the Residence because an engineer was
supposedly expected to make repairs.
IV.
The Disappearance and Murder of Jamal Khashoggi
89.
Ms. Cengiz recalled that on the morning of 2 October, Mr. Khashoggi called the
Consulate to tell them that he would be going there. A consular official told him that they
would call him back. Forty minutes later someone from the Consulate called him and told
him to arrive at 13:00.38
90.
On 2 October, between 10 and 11 in the morning, the fifteen Saudi officials split into
two groups. Five went to the Consul General’s Residence, while the remaining ten went to
the Consulate.
Table B: Locations of the Saudi Officials during the Murder
Consul General’s Residence
Consulate
Mansour Othman
Abahussain,
Mohammed Saad Alzahrani,
Naif Hasan Alarifi,
Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb,
Abdulaziz Mohammed
Alhawsawi
Waleed Abdullah Alshehri,
Khalid Aedh Alotaibi,
Fahad Shabib Albalawi,
Meshal Saad Albostani
Badr Lafi Alotaibi,
Dr. Salah Mohammed Tubaigy,
Mustafa Mohammed Almadani,
Thaar Ghaleb Alharbi,
Saif Saad Alqahtani,
Turki Musharraf Alshehri
91.
At 13:02, inside the Consulate, Mr. Mutreb and Dr. Tubaigy had a conversation just
minutes before Mr. Khashoggi entered. Mr. Mutreb asked whether it will “be possible to put
37
38
According to Turkish Intelligence 44 witnesses had been interviewed by Turkish Investigators.
Al Jazeera Interview with Hatice Cengiz, 23:16 – 23:40.
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