Saad Aljabri, a former top Saudi intelligence official who had sought exile in Toronto. He is seeking unspecified damages from bin Salman and his associates for allegedly orchestrating an “attempted extrajudicial killing” and for violating international law. Earlier this year, Ottawa announced it would resume military exports to Saudi Arabia after putting a freeze on new permits in 2018 over human rights concerns. In June 2017, bin Salman ousted bin Nayef in a palace coup and became the de-facto ruler. “(Mohammed bin Salman) and his group or — I don’t know — his team, they want to harm me,” he told the newspaper.

Source: thestar August 06, 2020 16:04 UTC