Article 43357 Funeral prayers for Jamal Khashoggi ring out in absentia

Funeral prayers for Jamal Khashoggi ring out in absentia

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Bethan McKernan, Turkey correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#43357)

Thousands of mourners pay respects to journalist, whose body has still not been found

Thousands of people across the world have gathered to pay their respects to Jamal Khashoggi, reciting funeral prayers in absentia because the journalist's body has still not been found.

Six weeks after his killing by agents from Riyadh at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, prayers for the writer rang out at the prophet's mosque in the holy Saudi Arabian city of Medina on Friday morning.

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