US SR473

Commemorates the seventh anniversary of the October 2, 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed and dismembered by Saudi government agents at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey

Acknowledges that the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence found Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved the operation to capture or kill Khashoggi, and that the U.S. has sanctioned 17 Saudi individuals under the Global Magnitsky Act for their roles in the murder

Calls on Saudi Arabia to ensure accountability for all individuals responsible for Khashoggi's murder and to release wrongfully detained individuals including Nourah al-Qahtani, Abdulrahman Alsadhan, Salman Alodah, and others

Condemns Saudi Arabia's ongoing human rights abuses including transnational repression, arbitrary detentions, executions, and the systematic killing of hundreds of Ethiopian migrants at the Saudi-Yemeni border between March 2022 and June 2023

Urges Saudi Arabia to respect citizens' rights and protect freedoms of assembly, association, and the press, noting that human rights abuses strain the U.S.-Saudi strategic relationship