Sec. 6002. Findings
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Congress finds the following: On October 2, 2018, Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Government agents in Istanbul. According to the United Nations Special Rapporteur’s June 2019 report, Mr. Khashoggi contacted the Saudi Embassy in Washington regarding required documentation he needed to obtain from Saudi authorities and was told to obtain the document from the Saudi embassy in Turkey . According to press reports, Mr. Khashoggi’s associates were surveilled after having their phones infiltrated by spyware.
On July 15, 2019, the House of Representatives passed by a margin of 405-7 the Saudi Arabia Human Rights and Accountability Act of 2019 (H.R. 2037), which required— an unclassified report by the Director of National Intelligence on parties responsible for Khashoggi’s murder, a requirement ultimately inserted into and passed as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 ( Public Law 116–92 ); visa sanctions on all persons identified in such report; and a report on human rights in Saudi Arabia.
On February 26, 2021, the Director of National Intelligence released the report produced pursuant to congressional direction, which stated, we assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. . The report also identified several individuals who participated in, ordered, or were otherwise complicit in or responsible for the death of Jamal Khashoggi on behalf of Muhammad bin Salman.
We do not know whether these individuals knew in advance that the operation would result in Khashoggi's death. . Section 7031(c) of division K of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 states Officials of foreign governments and their immediate family members about whom the Secretary of State has credible information have been involved, directly or indirectly, in…a gross violation of human rights… shall be ineligible for entry into the United States. . Section 6 of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2756 ) provides that no letters of offer may be issued, no credits or guarantees may be extended, and no export licenses may be issued with respect to any country determined by the President to be engaged in a consistent pattern of acts of intimidation or harassment directed against individuals in the United States .
Section 502B of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2304 ) directs the President to formulate and conduct international security assistance programs of the United States in a manner which will “promote and advance human rights and avoid identification of the United States, through such programs, with governments which deny to their people internationally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms, in violation of international law or in contravention of the policy of the United States”.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on February 26, 2021, stated: As a matter of safety for all within our borders, perpetrators targeting perceived dissidents on behalf of any foreign government should not be permitted to reach American soil… We have made absolutely clear that extraterritorial threats and assaults by Saudi Arabia against activists, dissidents, and journalists must end. .
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