Asks Justin Bieber to boycott Saudi Arabia – VG

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– Please, Justin Bieber, do not act for the regime that killed my fiancé, is the title of an open letter to the artist in Washington Post,

The letter is signed by Hatice Cengiz who was engaged to Khashoggi before he was killed.

“This is a unique opportunity to send a message to the world that your name and talent should not be used to restore the reputation of a regime that kills its critics,” she writes.

Bieber is in fact one of the highlights of the Formula 1 race Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, and is scheduled to hold a concert in the country on 5 December. A $ AP Rocky, David Guetta and Jason Derulo are among the other participating artists.

The artist is currently out on the “Justice World Tour”, which takes over Trondheim in August 2022.

– This year you released an album called «Justice». You have also previously released the album «Freedom». Saudi Arabia has a dire need for both, writes Cengiz.

Bieber has not yet made any statements after the letter was printed in the Washington Post.

Disappeared without a trace

Jamal Khashoggi wrote, among other things, several regime-critical artists in The Washington Post, before he disappeared without a trace in 2018 after entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in 2018.

VG interviewed fiancé Hatice Cengiz when she visited Norway to attend the SKUP conference the following year:

– You never know what will happen, but I have thought a lot about this. I wish we were more careful. We had to go there to get married. I feel guilty, and that is the worst of all, she told VG at the time.

The same year, an independent UN investigation concluded that Saudi Arabia was behind the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Investigators in Turkey and the CIA in the United States have also shared this view.

Media leaks from the Turkish investigation have indicated that Khashoggi was killed in a bestial way, and that he is said to have been strangled and mutilated. The crown certificate was an audio recording from the actual murder.

Turkey’s controversial president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slammed Saudi Arabia after Khashoggi was assassinated, and referred to as “political assassination”. The Turkish authorities, for their part, are no strangers to imprison journalists.

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