Khashoggi’s son arrives in US; UN rapporteur said that journalist’s murder bears hallmark of extrajudicial execution

The son of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Salah, arrived in the United States after Saudi Arabia lifted a travel ban.

A State Department spokesman said the US welcomed the decision by Riyadh to allow the dual Saudi-American citizen to go. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed Salah’s status during his recent visit to the kingdom, spokesman Robert Palladino told reporters.

Palladino said Pompeo “made it clear to Saudi leaders that he wanted Salah Khashoggi to return to the United States, and we are pleased that he is now able to do so”. The destination of Salah and his family was not known, but his late father lived in the Washington area.

The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions said Khashoggi’s killing bears the hallmark of an extrajudicial execution. “What we know is sufficient to suggest very strongly that Mr Khashoggi was the victim of an extrajudicial execution and that the government of Saudi Arabia is implicated in one way or another,” Agnes Callamard told Al Jazeera.