News - World: A British newspaper published a report addressing fears and warnings for fear that Britain would witness crimes similar to the murder of Saudi journalist Khashoggi. The Telegraph's website, quoted human rights activists as saying that police in Britain should take threats against Saudi politicians living in exile seriously or risk another scandal like the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

Activists cautioned that police officers “appear to have no idea of the international context when responding to reports of death threats,” according to the report.

The report, written by Henry Bodkin, noted that this comes after the Metropolitan Police “refused to investigate the apparent intimidation against a prominent London-based opposition figure.” According to Bodkin, Britain-based Saudi dissident Yahya Asiri, a former officer in the Royal Saudi Air Force, found a large knife outside his kitchen window last August, the same day he was sent a poster with a knife in it. a message and the word “soon” in Arabic on social media. Social media. 

Asiri is now the secretary general of the National Assembly Party, a Saudi opposition party whose members, for the most part, live in exile.
The report indicated that members of the police visited his home but refused to check the knife for fingerprints or the nearby surveillance camera on the grounds that “there was no crime” and that this would be a waste of money, he claimed. 

Although they begged to look him up online to see that he was a known activist, they refused on the grounds that doing so would be “biased.” 
“Over the past two years, Asiri and his family’s car has been raided, threatened on the street, and the victim of wiretapping and other electronic surveillance,” the report says.

He noted that the threats are reminiscent of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey in 2018.

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, faces allegations of involvement in the killing of Khashoggi, but the Saudi authorities deny it.

The report stated that “in 2019, Norwegian officials had to transfer Iyad al-Baghdadi, a pro-Palestinian democrat, to safety after the CIA informed him of a threat from Saudi Arabia.”

Returning to Asiri, who also heads the London-based Al-Qasset Human Rights Group, the Telegraph says he “received explicit death threats that included images of the beheading of a Saudi, with a sentence saying: ‘You will return to Arabia. Saudi Confront Mohammed bin Salman ‘”.

“The British government knows that we are under threat, they know the level of danger that we face from the system, but when the police send people, they send people who do not know anything about it. It is becoming more and more dangerous,” Assiri. saying. “I think they are still afraid of the UK, but will they still be afraid? I don’t know,” he said.

The Metropolitan Police said it “has no record of any crime recorded in connection with the August knife incident,” according to the newspaper.  A police spokesperson added: “We are asking anyone who has received threats or other malicious communications to report it to the police, who will evaluate each allegation.” 

Source: BBC