The Yemeni Nobel peace prize winner tawakel Karman protests for days against the Disappearance of the Dissident Jamal Khashoggi. In a DW Interview, she raises serious allegations against the Saudi government.
Solidarity with Jamal Kashoggi: Tawakkol Karman in front of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, 5.10. 2018
DW: Ms. Karman, you are protesting daily in front of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, and have become the face of a global solidarity campaign for Jamal Khashoggi. The Turkish authorities had announced their intention to inform quickly about their investigation of the Disappearance. But awareness is currently. How do you see this circumstance?
Tawakul Karman: The Turkey needs to clarify all the Details. That is your responsibility, and you is obliged. On the territory of their state has happened is a heinous crime. With our strike, we call on Turkey to inform all the education Necessary to business and the world public about the events. So far, Turkey has many of the Details along the way leakage. You must disclose officially.
What is your latest information?
The most recent data indicate that Jamal Khashoggi was most probably killed in the Consulate of a 15-member Saudi security team that left to come from abroad – and on the same day. According to media reports, Turkish security sources say Jamal Khashoggi had been tortured at the Consulate and killed, then his body had been taken away in a darkened car. So far, the Consulate has presented no evidence that Khashoggi has left the Consulate alive.
Our Central question is therefore: How is his mental, physical and spiritual health? Was he tortured? He was killed and his body then actually parts, such as Turkish security tell services? All the need to know the world.
Who are you and what did you do? The Website of the Turkish newspaper “Sabah” revealed pictures of the members of the Saudi security command, which was for a short time in the Consulate in Istanbul’s
The solidarity campaign of the media and activists is sufficient to put the Parties sufficiently under pressure?
This is a global campaign. It is not limited to Turkey. It is an information campaign on the Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. This Disappearance is an attack on all of civil society, journalists, and activists. Therefore, no one can remain silent to this crime. It looks like we are about to witness one of Saudi Arabia responsible for a case of state terrorism. This case fits in with other state terrorist practices, the Saudi Arabia, both within and outside of its territory against its citizens practiced.
As a winner of the Nobel peace prize, you are one of the most prominent faces of the Khashoggi-solidarity campaign. What are the objectives of the campaign?
She insists on Khashoggis release, for the case that he should still be alive. We continue to hope that this is the case. In addition, those who are for this crime must be held accountable. For this purpose, the Saudi crown Prince, Anm counts for us in the first place (. d. Red.) Mohammed bin Salman. We blame him to have the action instructed. Which also makes the Interview suggest that he has given to the transmitter by Bloomberg. In it, he makes a very detailed Knowledge of the recognize. We are asking a question of an international Commission of inquiry. This must determine the truth and hold those responsible to account.
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Your accusations are based on a Interview with the saudi crown Prince. You have more evidence, which incriminate him personally to oversee this process?
If the whole of the business circles, according to Turkish security at the Saudi Consulate was carried out, which represents the Saudi state, it may not have been without direct instructions from Mohammed bin Salman running.
In addition, it is known that the systematic persecution and the policy of Repression against opponents of Muhammad-bin-Salman-regime has led hundreds of activists and journalists arrested, in hiding, kidnapped, were, without any right to defend themselves, or lawyers.
Are carriers in the case in contact with the other Nobel prize?
Yes, there will soon be a statement from a group of Nobel prize winners. In it they condemn the action taken against Jamal Khashoggi. In addition, there is an explanation to all the opposition, the imprisoned in Saudi prisons. We also speak to the Saudi war in Yemen, as well as against that of Muhammad bin Salman practised a policy of arrogance and Aggression.
Foreclosed: A Saudi security officer looks out of the Consulate in Istanbul.
When was the last Time a direct contact to Khashoggi? As he saw the Saudi Kingdom?
I met him about two months ago. We communicated via e-Mail. He was very unhappy about the wave of arrests in Saudi Arabia. He was not, however, that there would be a Revolution against the crown Prince Bin Salman. He’s not even wanted. Instead, he argued for moderate reforms.
In some Saudi and Emirati media is the accusation that the campaign of solidarity with Khashoggi will be the responsibility of Qatar. You are accused, to lead the campaign in the name of a specific political Agenda. What do you say to these allegations?
It is a global campaign, which is supported by many media – from small to large, such as the “Washington Post”. Jamal was a Journalist for the Washington Post. He was lured into the Saudi Consulate in Turkey, hiding there and possibly killed. The managers thought they could Jamal bring Khashoggis voice to Silence. But instead, his voice was even stronger and even more well-known. So you made him a global icon of freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist and human rights activist. It is Islah member of the Muslim brothers, the relatives of opposition party al -. She is a representative of the protest movement in Yemen. In 2011, she received the Nobel peace prize for her commitment to women’s rights.
The Interview was conducted by Moncef Slimi.
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