IV 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 854 
Commemorating the seventh anniversary of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi 
and calling for accountability. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 31, 2025 
Mr. WALKINSHAW (for himself, Mr. BEYER, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. COHEN, Mr. 
SUBRAMANYAM, Ms. NORTON, Ms. TITUS, Mr. MOULTON, Mr. MCGOV-
ERN, Mr. DOGGETT, and Mr. RASKIN) submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Commemorating the seventh anniversary of the murder of 
Jamal Khashoggi and calling for accountability. 
Whereas Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist, author, 
and a former general manager and editor-in-chief of Al- 
Arab News Channel who fled Saudi Arabia in June 2017 
and went into self-imposed exile in Virginia in the United 
States; 
Whereas, on September 18, 2017, Jamal Khashoggi pub-
lished his first article in the Washington Post, stating, ‘‘I 
have left my home, my family and my job, and I am rais-
ing my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who 
languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot. I 
want you to know that Saudi Arabia has not always been 
as it is now. We Saudis deserve better.’’; 
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Whereas, on October 2, 2018, Jamal Khashoggi was brutally 
killed and dismembered by agents of the Government of 
Saudi Arabia in the consulate of Saudi Arabia in 
Istanbul, Turkey; 
Whereas, in February 2021, the Government of the United 
States submitted an unclassified report to Congress, pro-
viding transparency on the killing and announced the 
Khashoggi Ban, a measure that allows the Department 
of State to impose visa restrictions on individuals who 
‘‘directly engage in serious, extraterritorial counter-dis-
sident activities, including those that suppress, harass, 
surveil, threaten, or harm journalists, activists, or other 
persons perceived to be dissidents’’; 
Whereas the Office of the Director of National Intelligence 
found that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Muham-
mad bin Salman, approved an operation in Istanbul, Tur-
key, to capture or kill Khashoggi; 
Whereas, since the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the 
Government of Saudi Arabia continues to crack down on 
free expression through the use of enforced disappear-
ances, unjust detentions, threats, intimidation, execu-
tions, and transnational repression; 
Whereas Freedom House defines transnational repression as 
‘‘governments reaching across borders to silence dissent 
among diasporas and exiles, including through assassina-
tions, illegal deportations, abductions, digital threats, 
Interpol abuse, and family intimidation’’; 
Whereas, according to Freedom House, the Governments of 
Iran, the People’s Republic of China, Egypt, the Russian 
Federation, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, and other states are 
increasingly disregarding the laws of the United States to 
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threaten, harass, surveil, stalk, and, in some cases, plot 
physical harm to individuals across the United States; 
Whereas, according to Freedom House, governments that 
perpetrate transnational repression tactics regularly 
reach beyond their borders to intimidate journalists and 
suppress truthful reporting; 
Whereas, since 2014, 26 governments have carried out 124 
incidents of transnational repression against exiled jour-
nalists; 
Whereas, on June 17, 2025, the leaders of the G7 recognized 
transnational repression as a global threat to national se-
curity and democracy; 
Whereas citizens of the United States Areej al-Sadhan, sister 
of detained humanitarian aid worker Abdulrahman al- 
Sadhan, and Abdullah Alaoudh of Virginia, son of de-
tained scholar Salman Alodah, have been subject to in-
timidation and harassment in the United States; 
Whereas, in August 2022, a former Twitter employee was 
found guilty of acting as an unregistered agent of the 
Government of Saudi Arabia, spying on Saudi dissidents 
and sharing their private information with Saudi leader-
ship; 
Whereas Saudi officials have continued to arrest, ban the 
travel of, and otherwise intimidate women and women 
human rights defenders, including Loujain Alhathloul, 
Manahel and Fouz al-Otaibi, Dr. Lina al-Sharif, Salma 
al-Shehab, and Nourah al-Qahtani; 
Whereas Saudi border security systematically killed hundreds 
of Ethiopian migrants, including women and children, 
crossing the Saudi-Yemeni border between March 2022 
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and June 2023, subjecting others to brutal violence and 
sexual assault; 
Whereas Saudi officials continue to unjustly imprison and 
ban individuals from the United States from travel, in-
cluding Aziza Yousef and Saad Almadi; 
Whereas Turki al-Jasser, a journalist and founder of the 
news blog Al-Mashhad Al-Saudi, was executed on June 
14, 2025, after 7 years of arbitrary imprisonment in 
Saudi Arabia; 
Whereas Saudi human rights abuses, including against indi-
viduals of the United States, place unnecessary strain on 
the United States-Saudi Arabia relationship, which is an 
essential element of regional stability; and 
Whereas the United States has an important strategic rela-
tionship with Saudi Arabia, one based on a long history 
of cooperation on regional security issues and energy sup-
ply: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) acknowledges the Government of the United 
States has sanctioned 17 Saudi individuals under 
the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability 
Act (subtitle F of title XII of Public Law 114–328; 
22 U.S.C. 10101 et seq.) for their roles in the mur-
der of Jamal Khashoggi; and 
(2) calls for the Government of Saudi Arabia 
to— 
(A) ensure appropriate accountability for 
all individuals responsible for the murder of 
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Jamal Khashoggi, including the individuals 
sanctioned by the United States; 
(B) release all individuals wrongfully de-
tained, 
including 
Nourah 
al 
Qahtani, 
Abdulrahman 
Alsadhan, 
Salman 
Alodah, 
Waleed Abu al-Khair, and Sarah and Omar 
Aljabri; and 
(C) respect the rights of Saudi citizens and 
ensure the protection of the freedoms of assem-
bly, association, and the press. 
Æ 
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