⁍ The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court on Tuesday.

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⁍ The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages against Saudi Arabia’s crown prince.

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⁍ It also named more than 20 other Saudis as defendants.

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– The fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi filed a lawsuit in a US court on Tuesday with allegations that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince ordered him killed. The civil lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages against Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman also named more than 20 other Saudis as defendants, Reuters reports. It coincides with complications in the US-Saudi relationship over the 2018 slaying of Khashoggi, Riyadh’s human rights record, its role in Yemen’s civil war and other issues. The crown prince—known by his initials MbS—has denied ordering Khashoggi’s murder. Khashoggi, who criticized the policies of the crown prince, Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, in the Washington Post columns, was killed and dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. He went there to obtain papers he needed to marry Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish citizen. Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now, a US-based human rights group founded by Khashoggi, filed the lawsuit in US District Court for the District of Columbia. It names several of the crown prince’s aides and officials who were convicted in Saudi Arabia of the murder. The prosecution declared the Saudi case closed.