Turkish daily: Tapes show Saudi journalist's fingers were chopped off, then he was decapitated


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  • Thursday, 18 Oct 2018

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished after entering Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul for official documents ahead of his upcoming wedding to his Turkish fiancee.PHOTO: AFP.

ANKARA (AFP): Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured before being decapitated inside Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul, pro-government daily Yeni Safak reported on Wednesday (Oct 17), saying it had heard audio recordings.

Khashoggi's alleged killers tortured the journalist during interrogation by cutting his fingers off, Yeni Safak said, claiming it had heard multiple recordings of the incident.

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