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  "name": "Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud",
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  "role": "King of Saudi Arabia",
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      "title": "Saudi Arabia's government kills journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside its Istanbul consulate",
      "occurred_on": "2018-10-02",
      "occurred_on_precision": "day",
      "country": "SA",
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      "continent": "asia",
      "jurisdiction": "SA",
      "level": "national",
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      "leader_name": "Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud",
      "issue_of_the_day": "Jamal Khashoggi's Washington Post columns criticizing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's consolidation of power and human-rights record.",
      "outcome": "unknown",
      "outcome_on": null,
      "outcome_note": "A Saudi court convicted eight unnamed operatives and sentenced five to death, later commuted; the CIA's assessment that the crown prince ordered the killing did not result in charges against him.",
      "stage": "eliminate",
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        "year": 2026,
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      "era": "2010s",
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      "status": "historical",
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      "summary": "Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed by Saudi agents inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul; the CIA concluded the crown prince ordered the killing, which Saudi Arabia denied.",
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