Jamal Khashoggi 'Born' Again, So The Street Name "Jamal Khashoggi Way" In Front Of The Saudi Embassy In Washington

Illustration of the struggle for justice for the late Jamal Kashoggi. (Wikimedia Commons /April Brady/Project on Middle East Democracy)

JAKARTA - Is this a slap in the face for Saudi Arabia? No one knows. But the street name in front of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington is now "Jamal Khashoggi Way".

Activists who continue to voice the arrest of the intellectual perpetrator who killed Jamal Khashoggi managed to convince the local government.

The local government of the capital changed signs on a block in front of the embassy to read "Jamal Khashoggi Way" in honor of the death of the Saudi critic who died in a violent manner inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018.

Quoted from Channel News Asia, Thursday June 16, the road will serve as a reminder and a memorial to the memory of the Jamal Khashoggi case that cannot be covered up, said Phil Mendelson, president of the District Council of Columbia who voted unanimously to rename the stretch of New Hampshire Avenue. along that road.

The name change comes one day after the White House announced President Joe Biden would travel next month to Saudi Arabia and meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The last name was so widely mentioned as the mastermind behind the murder.

Tawakkol Karman, a Yemeni activist and Nobel Peace Prize-winning writer, said the visit meant Biden had abandoned his commitment to supporting human rights around the world. intends to remind them every day, every hour, every minute, that this is Jamal Khashoggi Street," said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now.

"We will hold them accountable for the murder of our friend, a brave Saudi man, Jamal Khashoggi, who dared to challenge the tyranny of Mohammed bin Salman."