A/HRC/41/CRP.1 74. On 8-9 September, 2018, Mr. Khashoggi met with Ms. Cengiz’s father who approved the marriage on the conditions that the marriage was a civil one, rather than just religious, and that an apartment be purchased by Mr. Khashoggi in Istanbul that Ms. Cengiz would coown. Mr. Khashoggi agreed. 75. In September, while in Istanbul, Mr. Khashoggi was hospitalized. Ms. Cengiz accompanied him.17 Worried that something may go wrong, she asked Mr. Khashoggi for details of his emergency contacts. He told her that in an emergency she should contact Dr. Yasin Aktai, Advisor to the President of the AK Party, whom he considered a close friend. After spending three to four hours at the hospital, Mr. Khashoggi recovered sufficiently to participate in a conference that evening. He then returned to London. 76. Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (Turkish Intelligence) reported that on 27 September 2018, a Saudi Security Screening Team swept the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul for bugs and other surveillance equipment.18 III. Planning and Preparations 77. On the morning of 28 September, Mr. Khashoggi and Ms. Cengiz went to a marriage bureau in Istanbul to clarify whether or not there was a way for them to get married without a Saudi document stating that Mr. Khashoggi was unmarried. 19 However, at the bureau they were told that the document was absolutely necessary. Unannounced, Mr. Khashoggi and Ms. Cengiz went to the Saudi Consulate. Mr. Khashoggi left his phones with his fiancée because he knew that, as per Consulate procedure, he would need to relinquish his phones to consular security and he did not feel comfortable leaving his devices with Saudi officials. 20 He entered the Consulate at 11:50.21 He spent around 45 minutes inside and was treated very well. Ms. Hatice recalled that Mr. Khashoggi “left the consulate very happy. He felt relieved and did not hesitate going there again.”22 Consular officials he spoke to told him that he would need to return on 2 October 2018 to obtain the marriage document. Mr. Khashoggi flew back to London on the afternoon of 28 September at 14:40. 23 78. According to Turkish Intelligence, even before Mr. Khashoggi’s plane took off from Istanbul at 14:40, information that he had been at the Consulate, and would return on October 2, had been relayed to Riyadh. The Special Rapporteur listened to two phone calls made at 14:22 and 14:27 on 28 September. In the first call, a security attaché stationed at the Consulate (SA), spoke to Mr. Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb. Mr. Mutreb said he had informed “the communications office24 about the information Hatim25 gave me.” SA responded, “I conveyed the videos and images. Can you make sure that it’s closed?” In the second conversation, SA said he “spoke to the communications office. He didn’t give me the full information.” Mr. Mutreb asked if Mr. Khashoggi would be returning to the Consulate on October 2. SA responded, “Yes, we were all shocked. We just spoke. I said how are you? There isn’t anything official but it’s known that he is one of the people sought. 26 However, 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Interview with Hatice Cengiz. Interview with Chief of Turkish Intelligence. Al Jazeera Interview with Hatice Cengiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snu0lGABUI&t=1538s. Special Rapporteur’s Interview with Ms. Cengiz . Documents from Turkish Intelligence. Al Jazeera Interview with Hatice Cengiz – 22:11 -22:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snu0lGABUI&t=1538s. Interview. The “communication office” may refer to the department directed by Saud al-Qahtani, a close advisor to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who earned the sobriquets “Mr. Hashtag” and “Lord of the Flies” for managing Saudi Arabia’s image online as well as attacking dissenters and anyone else questioning the Crown Prince’s policies. The individual named “Hatim” has not been identified. On 21 October 2018, Reuters reported that an anonymous Saudi official presented its journalist with internal Saudi intelligence documents which appeared to describe an initiative to bring dissidents back to Saudi Arabia, including Mr. Khashoggi www.reuters.com/article/saudi-khashoggi- 15