US House approves bill to sanction individuals linked to Khashoggi killing

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The New Arab
US House approves bill to sanction individuals linked to Khashoggi killing

US legislators on Monday passed two measures aimed at clamping down on Saudi Arabia's gross human rights abuses, including a bill to slap sanctions on individuals who ordered or carried out the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution condemning the kingdom for detaining and abusing female human rights activists who had been campaigning against past restrictions, currently lifted, on women driving and traveling without a male guardian, the Washington Post reported.

The US lower house passed the Khashoggi bill, by a vote of 405 to 7, which would oblige the director of national intelligence to identify those behind his murder as well as deny or revoke any visas to the perpetrators.

Read more at: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/7/16/us-house-approves-punitive-measures-against-saudi-arabia