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US imposes visa ban on 76 Saudi citizens over Khashoggi murder

News Desk || risingbd.com

Published: 09:44, 28 February 2021  
US imposes visa ban on 76 Saudi citizens over Khashoggi murder

The United States has imposed a visa ban on 76 Saudi Arabian citizens over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

In a statement Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “the world was horrified” by Khashoggi’s murder and announced a visa restriction policy named after the prominent Saudi journalist and dissident.

 “The Khashoggi Ban allows the State Department to impose visa restrictions on individuals who, acting on behalf of a foreign government, are believed to have been directly engaged in serious, extraterritorial counter-dissident activities, including those that suppress, harass, surveil, threaten or harm journalists or other persons perceived to be dissidents for their work, or who engage in such activities with respect to the families or other close associates of such persons,” Blinken said in the statement.

“As a matter of safety for all within our borders, perpetrators targeting dissidents on behalf of any foreign government should not be permitted to reach American soil,” Blinken added.
 

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