“Khashgeji murder case” … A former Twitter employee revealed!
A former Twitter employee accused of helping Saudi Arabia crack down on dissent said the government’s involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashgeji should not be mentioned in his US trial.
Ahmed Abu Amu, accused of working illegally for a foreign institution, is asking the judge, who will begin his trial in San Francisco in July 2022, to release some evidence unrelated to his case.
According to a report released by Bloomberg on Saturday, June 11, prosecutors allege that while he was the Middle East media communications officer on Twitter in 2014, the Saudi government used him to extract the account information of users of the platform, who The Saudi regime was criticized, hired and paid. , 2022.
For their part, Abu Uncle’s lawyers filed a lawsuit in court on Friday, June 10, 2022, saying their client’s allegations had no justification for the plaintiffs linking him to Saudi Arabia’s actions against government critics.
“Saudi Arabia will not be prosecuted for human rights abuses, and Abu Amu is not accused of aiding human rights crimes in Saudi Arabia, but of violating Twitter policies and failing to register with the Attorney General within a specified period of time,” the lawyers wrote. Is. ”
Abu Amu’s lawyers said prosecutors appear to want an article in the New York Times about a breach of Twitter privacy and text messages related to 2018 between Abu Amu and a former colleague of the company in which he said he knew Khashgeji. And show his grief over his death.
Prosecutors said the article was a “rumor” and should not be presented to the jury as “fact” about Abu Amu’s alleged conspiracy.
In a related context, U.S. attorneys representing Abu Amu in Friday’s appeal noted that Twitter users who will be cited by the court should not be identified as “victims” or “dissidents” because that would cause The jury is prejudiced against him.
In a separate case, the plaintiffs also asked U.S. District Judge Edward Chen to order that Twitter users’ personal identities be kept confidential in court, in part to protect them from persecution by the royal family.
They said: the defense lawyers did not agree with this condition.
Source: Lebanon Debate
