The street on which the building of the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington is located is officially named after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed in his country’s consulate in Turkey about a month before the controversial visit planned by President Joe Biden. ., take him to Riyadh.

The U.S. Capital City Council unveiled a “Jamal Khashoggi Street” sign in tribute to the memory of the journalist who was killed in his country’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018. The ceremony took place, apparently by coincidence, a day after the announcement of Biden’s planned visit to Saudi Arabia in mid-July, during which he will meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom US intelligence accused of “approving” the killing of Khashoggi, who wrote Anti-Air Riyadh articles for the Washington Post.

The mayor (whose council voted unanimously for the new name) Phil Mendelsohn stressed that the sign would serve as a “permanent reminder” and “a memorial so that the memory of Jamal Khashoggi never fades.” This is not the first such measure taken by the Washington City Council, as the Russian embassy is located on “Boris Nemtsov Avenue”, which bears the name of a reformist politician who was killed near the Kremlin in 2015. On the other hand, Beijing strongly opposed the renaming of the street. Its embassy bears the name of dissident Liu Xiaobo, a 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner who died in prison.