Istanbul - Jamal Khashoggi's friends, rights activists and
press freedom groups will hold a memorial in Istanbul on Wednesday
outside Riyadh's consulate, where the Saudi journalist was murdered.
The event on the first anniversary of his death will begin at 1:14pm
(1014 GMT), the exact time Khashoggi walked into his country's
diplomatic mission to get documents to marry his Turkish fiancee
Hatice Cengiz.
Cengiz, 37, will return to the building where she waited outside for
him for several hours a year ago, before raising the alarm of his
disappearance.
Turkey says Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered by a Saudi hit
squad after he entered the consulate.
The scheduled attendees at the service include UN special rapporteur
on extrajudicial killings Agnes Callamard, who investigated the
murder, and Yemeni Nobel peace laureate Tawakkol Karman.
No one has been held accountable for Khashoggi's death, although
Turkish and Western intelligence agencies say the order to kill him
could only have come "from the highest levels of the Saudi
government."
The kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, told
US broadcaster CBS that he did not order the murder, but took "full
responsibility as a leader in Saudi Arabia."
Callamard responded on Twitter: "There is in this statement an
implicit recognition that the killing of [Khashoggi] was a State
killing. It happened under his watch as quasi head of state. The
State is therefore implicated as he is."
Cengiz told dpa that although Khashoggi disagreed with the crown
prince and the kingdom, by killing him "they are now faced with much
greater problems. And they're going to pay the price for this."
Khashoggi's remains were never found.