Jamal Khashoggi’s sons have appealed to the Turkish and Saudi authorities to find and return their father’s body for a family burial, as more details emerged about alleged Saudi attempts to cover up the truth about the dissident journalist’s killing.

Salah, 35, and Abdullah, 33, broke their silence a month after their father disappeared at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in an interview with CNN on Sunday, describing how difficult the last few weeks had been for the family and paying tribute to a man they called “courageous, generous and very brave”.

Salah, who was believed to have been subject to a travel ban preventing him form leaving the kingdom, flew to Washington DC with Abdullah, their two sisters and respective families two weeks ago, just after he was pictured shaking hands with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after being summoned to one of Riyadh’s royal palaces.It is alleged that the powerful heir to the throne must have at a minimum been aware of the plan to kill Khashoggi, who had become increasingly critical of the Saudi royal family since moving to the US in self-imposed exile in 2017.(theguardian)…[+]