are for more now we want to bring in rebecca vincent she's director of international campaigns with reporters without borders she joins me from london rebecca it's good to have you on the program even if the courts were to convict the crown prince what effect do you think it would have to mean what do you hope to achieve with this lawsuit. we hope to achieve accountability i think it would certainly be a significant factor for any of the officials named especially that this study crown prince to find a court decision against them in any jurisdiction they have gambled with the fact that they can get away with these horrific crimes and so far they have and that gamble has been pretty safe so far because what we've seen is an international situation of impunity for the vast majority of crimes against journalists in the past decade there have been nearly a 1000 journalists killed around the world nearly all with full or partial impunity and at any given point there's nearly 400 journalists imprisoned around the world so our reporters without borders we're trying to now impose costs for this we're

are for more now we want to bring in rebecca vincent she's director of international campaigns with reporters without borders she joins me from london rebecca it's good to have you on the program even if the courts were to convict the crown prince what effect do you think it would have to mean what do you hope to achieve with this lawsuit. we hope to achieve accountability i think it would certainly be a significant factor for any of the officials named especially that this study crown prince to find a court decision against them in any jurisdiction they have gambled with the fact that they can get away with these horrific crimes and so far they have and that gamble has been pretty safe so far because what we've seen is an international situation of impunity for the vast majority of crimes against journalists in the past decade there have been nearly a 1000 journalists killed around the world nearly all with full or partial impunity and at any given point there's nearly 400 journalists imprisoned around the world so our reporters without borders we're trying to now impose costs for this we're

of the more this story is free and rebecca vincent she's director of the end of international complains with reporters without borders and joins us from london rebecca this lawsuit is about the killing of khashoggi but also the persecution of many journalists in saudi arabia tell us more. absolutely so we've detailed the cases of 35 journalists in this complaint so one being jamal khashoggi 34 big cases of arbitrary detention between 201-220-1933 of those journalists remain in prison today so we have argued that these constitute acts of widespread and systematic persecution of journalists that amount to crimes against humanity these include acts such as willful killing torture sexual violence and coersion enforced disappearance unlawful deprivation of physical liberty and persecution and we are pointing to the saudi crown prince mohamed bill's been someone and 4 other saudi officials as bearing direct responsibility for this widespread and systematic persecution. even if a german court convicts from solomon what effect will it hold of what you hope to achieve with this lawsuit well in t

are for more now we want to bring in rebecca vincent she's director of international campaigns with reporters without borders she joins me from london rebecca it's good to have you on the program even if the courts were to convict the crown prince what effect do you think it would have to mean what do you hope to achieve with this lawsuit. we hope to achieve accountability i think it would certainly be a significant factor for any of the officials named especially the study crown prince to find a court decision against them in any jurisdiction they have gambled with the fact that they can get away with these horrific crimes and so far they have and that gamble has been pretty safe so far because what we've seen is an international situation of impunity for the vast majority of crimes against journalists in the past decade there have been nearly a 1000 journalists killed around the world nearly all with full or partial impunity and at any given point there's nearly 400 journalists imprisoned around the world so our reporters without borders we're trying to now impose costs for this we're looki

are for more now we want to bring in rebecca vincent she's director of international campaigns with reporters without borders she joins me from london rebecca it's good to have you on the program even if the courts were to convict the crown prince what effect do you think it would have been mean what do you hope to achieve with this lawsuit. we hope to achieve accountability i think it would certainly be a significant factor for any of the officials named especially the study crown prince to find a court decision against them in any jurisdiction they have gambled with the fact that they can get away with these horrific crimes and so far they have and that gamble has been pretty safe so far because what we've seen is an international situation of impunity for the vast majority of crimes against journalists in the past decade there have been nearly a 1000 journalists killed around the world nearly all with full or partial impunity and at any given point there's nearly 400 journalists imprisoned around the world so our reporters without borders we're trying to now impose costs for this we're loo

of the more this story is free and rebecca vincent she's director of the end of international complains with reporters without borders and joins us from london rebecca this lawsuit is about the killing of khashoggi but also the persecution of many journalists in saudi arabia tell us more. absolutely so we've detailed the cases of 35 journalists in this complaint so one being jamal has shoji 34 big cases of arbitrary detention between 201-220-1933 of those journalists remain in prison today so we have argued that these constitute acts of widespread and systematic persecution of journalists that amount to crimes against humanity these include acts such as willful killing torture sexual violence and coersion enforced disappearance unlawful deprivation of physical liberty and persecution and we are pointing to the saudi crown prince mohamed bills been someone and 4 other saudi officials as bearing direct responsibility for this widespread and systematic persecution. even if a german court convicts from solomon what effects will have whoa what do you hope to achieve with this lawsuit well in