Khashoggi: The family wants a funeral in Medina – Politics

• The family of the killed Saudi journalist, Khashoggi, hopes that he will be buried in Medina.
• She hopes that an investigation will reveal the circumstances in which Khashoggi died in early October at the Saudi Arabian Consulate General in Istanbul.

The family of alleged murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi attends his father's burial ceremony in the Muslim holy city of Medina. It's "all we want now," said CNN Salah, Khashoggi's son. "I have talked to the Saudi authorities and I only hope that it will happen soon."

The family is still struggling with the uncertainty of what really happened at the Saudi Consulate General in Istanbul. "I'm waiting for the facts to be revealed," Salah Khashoggi said. Saudi King Salman stressed that all officials would be held responsible. This will happen, otherwise the Saudis would not have opened an internal investigation. "

The family hopes that Khashoggi died without pain

Abdullah, Salah Khashoggi 's brother, told his American counterpart: "No matter what happened to him, I really hope that it did not cause him pain – or at least quickly – or that he did not hurt him. he died a peaceful death. "

Previous reports and official statements about Khashoggi's fate give little hope to this hope. What is clear is that he went to the consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to collect papers for his planned wedding – and then did not show up. The Saudi government has presented various explanations for this disappearance. After only weeks, the regime declared that the critic of the government had been killed at the consulate.

According to Turkish justice, Khashoggi was strangled shortly after entering the consulate, his body was dismembered and then "destroyed." Earlier, Turkish investigators had talked about the Khashoggi torture by a special force specially arrived from Saudi Arabia.