It's being slammed as a "parody of justice" - but what should we really expect out of the 'kingdom of horrors' - whose leadership (which has all but admitted to the state-ordered murder and dismemberment of a well-known journalist) was long ago re-embraced with open arms by both Washington and Wall Street after a brief one year period of semi-isolation?
"The son of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has released a statement via Twitter forgiving his father's killers," Al Jazeera reports. "In the statement, posted on Friday, Salah Khashoggi said his family pardons those who took the reporter's life in 2018 when he visited Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul."
And yes, in Saudi law this has significant and direct legal ramifications: "Under Islamic law, death sentences in Saudi Arabia can be commuted if the victim's family pardons the perpetrator, but it is not clear whether that will happen in this case," explains Al Jazeera further.
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