Bill would symbolically rename the street in front of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia as ‘Jamal Khashoggi Way’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/2/21) – On Wednesday, November 3, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) National Executive Director Nihad Awad will provide testimony in support of the “Jamal Khashoggi Way Designation Act of 2021” before the District of Columbia City Council’s scheduled public hearing for the bill and other measures. The hearing starts at 10:30 AM ET.
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[NOTE: CAIR will release a copy of Awad’s written testimony following the hearing.]
The Jamal Khashoggi Way Designation Act, also known as Bill 24-22, would honor the memory and legacy of murdered D.C. city resident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, by symbolically renaming the street in front of the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, as “Jamal Khashoggi Way.”
Khashoggi was murdered by agents of the Government of Saudi Arabia in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on Oct. 2, 2018. This planned assassination of a D.C. resident was orchestrated by Saudi officials.
The street sign would be posted on New Hampshire Avenue N.W., between Virginia Avenue N.W. and F Street, N.W., in Ward 2.
SEE: D.C. City Council Committee of the Whole Public Hearing
View this hearing live at: www.ChairmanMendelson.com/live
Khashoggi, was critic of the Saudi Arabia government’s human rights abuses and restrictions on political freedom under Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman, wrote columns for The Washington Post. He was murdered and dismembered in October 2018 after being lured to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul by Saudi agents.
According to a recent report by CNN: “The two private jets used by a Saudi Arabian assassination squad that killed and allegedly dismembered journalist Jamal Khashoggi were owned by a company that less than a year prior had been seized by the Kingdom’s powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.”
SEE: ‘Top Secret’ Saudi documents show Khashoggi assassins used company seized by Saudi crown prince
The Jamal Khashoggi Way Designation Act of 2021 was introduced in January by Councilmembers Brooke Pinto, Elissa Silverman, Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau, Christina Henderson, Vincent Gray, Mary Cheh, and Chairman Mendelson.
Following the bill’s introduction, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), CAIR, and Code Pink held a virtual press conference in support of the introduction of the Jamal Khashoggi Way Designation.
In October, DAWN, Code Pink, and CAIR held a commemorative protest on the eve of the third anniversary of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi outside the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C. October 2 marked the three-year anniversary of the Saudi Arabia government’s assassinated of Khashoggi.
WATCH: Video: Justice for Jamal Khashoggi Protest in Front of Saudi Embassy in D.C.
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