Amnesty International's human rights advocacy group named the road outside the Saudi embassy in London, England, as Jalan Khashoggi as a form of respect for the journalist who was killed in the Saudi consulate. The name was also a form of ridicule for the Saudi government because it was located at the Saudi embassy office.
Quoted from the page of the Independent, Saturday (3/11), the road naming movement became Khashoggi originating from America. A number of colleagues and admirers of Khashoggi made a petition calling on government officials to rename the streets of New Hampshire Avenue, the location of the Saudi embassy, to be the name of the Khashoggi street.
Now the movement is spreading to various locations in the world. Amnesty hopes that the movement will take place in various road locations where the Saudi Embassy is everywhere.
"The whole world is shocked by this brutal murder and this is important so that we do not let the perpetrators walk freely without being punished," said Kate Allen, director of Amnesty International UK.
"We have to drag the perpetrators of Khashoggi's murder to court, not only who did but also who ordered, and that will happen soon," Allen added.
At the commemoration of Khashoggi's death last Monday, the head of an Islamic research institute in the United States and longtime Khashoggi friend Nihad Awad called on the bereaved to start petitions in various cities where the Saudi embassy is located.
Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, was killed and allegedly his body was mutilated when he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2. Initially the Saudi government denied he was killed and said he left the consulate shortly after entering. But lately because of international pressure the Saudi recognized Khashoggi was killed.
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