Enlarge this imageHatice Cengiz says her accusations against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi would not receive a fair trial in Saudi Arabia. She is seen here earlier this month at the 16th Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland.Valeriano Di Domenico/Getty Images for ZFFhide captiontoggle captionValeriano Di Domenico/Getty Images for ZFFHatice Cengiz says her accusations against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi would not receive a fair trial in Saudi Arabia. She is seen here earlier this month at the 16th Zurich Film Festival in Switzerland.Valeriano Di Domenico/Getty Images for ZFFHatice Cengiz is suing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Sam Selman Jersey Salman in a U.S. court over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, saying the prince and more than 20 other people should be held responsible for a plot to murder the U.S.-based journalist and democracy advocate. “This brutal and brazen crime was the culmination of weeks of planning and conspiratorial actions taken collectively by Defendants and their co- conspirators,” the lawsuit states. Those named along with the crown prince include Saud Al-Qahtani, who allegedly orchestrated the killing reportedly giving orders to Khashoggi’s a sailants via Skype. Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now the nonprofit group Khashoggi led are seeking to convene a jury trial Tony Watson Jersey of the alleged co-conspirators in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The venue was chosen for several reasons, the plaintiffs say, including a belief that courts in Saudi Arabia or Turkey would not provide justice. Khashoggi died two years ago in Istanbul; his remains have never been found. The lawsuit refers to Cengiz as Khashoggi’s widow, saying she married him according to Islamic traditions on Sept.16, 2018. On the day Khashoggi died, he had been visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to confirm their marriage on civil grounds, the lawsuit states. It also says he was purposefully lured there by people who wanted him dead. “Defendants manufactured an opportunity to murder” Khashoggi when he approached the Saudi Emba sy in Washington, D.C., hoping to get obtain a certificate of marriage eligibility, the lawsuit states. Emba sy officials in the U.S. told Khashoggi that he couldn’t get the documents in Washington that he would need to travel to Turkey instead. “Defendant MBS also instructed the Saudi Amba sador to the United States … to a sure Mr. Khashoggi that it would be safe for Mr. Khashoggi to retrieve the document he needed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul,” the lawsuit says, referring to the crown prince by his initials. The encounter at the Saudi Emba sy, the lawsuit says, was a “fatal misdirection.” Willie McCovey Jersey “I am hopeful that we can achieve truth and justice for Jamal through this lawsuit,” Cengiz said in a statement sent to NPR. “Jamal believed anything was po sible in America and I place my trust in the American civil justice system to obtain a measure of justice and accountability.” One year ago, the crown prince acknowledged being accountable for the killing of Khashoggi, a prominent critic of the Saudi royal family’s autocratic rule. But Salman also denied playing a direct role in the Washington Post columnist’s death, saying, “I get all the responsibility because it happened under my watch.”Those remarks came after a U.N. special investigator said Salman should be investigated, citing evidence that he and other Saudi officials were responsible.The report by Agnes Callamard, special rapporteur for the U.N.’s Office of the High Commi sioner for Human Rights, found that “Khashoggi has been the victim of a deliberate, premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under international human rights law.” Early this year, Callamard and another special rapporteur said they were also “gravely concerned” by allegations that the crown prince’s me saging app was used to hack the phone of Jeff Bezos the Amazon billionaire who also owns The Washington Post — as part of its operations against Khashoggi. The lawsuit seeks both compensatory and punitive damages from the defendants, saying that the amounts would be determined at trial. “The objectives of this lawsuit are two-fold,” said Keith M. Harper, a former U.S. amba sador who is among the attorneys representing Cengiz. The goals, he said, are to attain accountability for the ” Brandon Belt Jersey heinous torture and murder” of Khashoggi, and to learn the whole truth about what happened. The Saudi government has not responded to a request for comment on the lawsuit. NPR’s Jackie Northam contributed reporting to this story.