Saudi Arabia sentences five people to death for murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

A video image of Hatice Cengiz, fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, is played during an event in Washington to remember Khashoggi, who died inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced five people to death for the killing of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. - AP

LOS ANGELES: A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced five people to death and three more to prison for the assassination last year of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

Dissident journalist Khashoggi was savagely killed by Saudi government agents last year in the country's consulate in Istanbul.