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Street by Saudi US embassy could be renamed 'Jamal Khashoggi Way'

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Agence France-Presse

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2018/news/12/01/cards.jpg"/><figcaption>In this file photo taken on November 16, 2018, a person holds a banner of Jamal Khashoggi during a symbolic funeral prayer for the Saudi journalist, killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October, at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul. Bulent Kilic, Agence France-Presse </figcaption></figure></div>WASHINGTON, United States - Local officials in a Washington neighborhood have voted to rename a street outside Saudi Arabia&#x27;s embassy in honor of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.If approved by the city council, the advisory commission&#x27;s measure means a stretch of road going past the expansive embassy building in the upscale Foggy Bottom neighborhood would be ceremonially renamed &quot;Jamal Khashoggi Way.&quot;Khashoggi, a US resident, was murdered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October. After initially denying the murder, Saudi Arabia has acknowledged Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate but blamed his death on a &quot;rogue&quot; operation.Top officials from the administration of President Donald Trump have said they&#x27;ve seen no direct evidence linking the murder to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but the CIA reportedly has found a connection.According to CNN, the idea to change the street&#x27;s name started about a month ago following an online petition. &quot;We suggest renaming the street address of the Saudi Embassy into Jamal Khashoggi Way to be a daily reminder to Saudi officials&quot; that such killings are &quot;totally unacceptable and as an expression of Washington&#x27;s unstinting support for freedom of the press,&quot; the petition states.A similar action was taken outside the Russian embassy, where a street was this year renamed in honor of prominent Vladimir Putin critic Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated in Moscow in 2015.<div>© Agence France-Presse</div>

WASHINGTON, United States - Local officials in a Washington neighborhood have voted to rename a street outside Saudi Arabia's embassy in honor of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

WASHINGTON, United States - Local officials in a Washington neighborhood have voted to rename a street outside Saudi Arabia's embassy in honor of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.