Salah Mohammed Abdah Al Tubaigy (, born 20 August 1971), also spelled Tubaiqi, is a Saudi forensic doctor. He was the head of the Saudi Scientific Council of Forensics and a

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in the

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. In 2019 Tubaigy was sentenced to death for his involvement in the

assassination of Jamal Khashoggi On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist, was killed by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Khashoggi was ambushed and strangled by a 15-member squad of Saudi operatives. His body w ...

, but was pardoned the following year by Khashoggi's children.

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Tubaigy was a professor in the criminal evidence department at Naif Arab University for Security Sciences in

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, and was known for pioneering rapid and mobile

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. He taught and published papers on gathering

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evidence and dissecting human bodies and had a prominent role in Saudi Arabia's state security apparatus and scientific community for around 20 years. He designed a mobile autopsy lab to accompany Muslims on the

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, and said it can "provide the dissection service to the authorities in a record time." For three months, from June 2015, he studied at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in

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, Australia. In 2018

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reported that Tubaigy was involved in the murder and dismembering of

Jamal Khashoggi Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi (13 October 1958 – 2 October 2018) was a Saudi journalist, Saudi dissidents, dissident, author, columnist for ''Middle East Eye'' and ''The Washington Post'', and a general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab New ...

. A source said "Tubaigy began to cut Khashoggi’s body up on a table in the study while he was still alive... As he started to dismember the body, Tubaigy put on earphones and listened to the song “Trust me I’m a Doctor” by the acclaimed band The Blizzards. He advised other members of the squad to do the same." Tubaigy served on the editorial board to the King Fahd Security College. In late October 2018, his name was removed from the publication's website. In April 2019, as a response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the United States banned Tubaigy and 15 others (including

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) from entering the country. On 23 December 2019, Tubaigy was one of five people sentenced to death for carrying out Khashoggi's killing. He was then pardoned by Khashoggi's children on 20 May 2020."Jamal Kashoggi's children pardon their father's killers"
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, 26 October 2018 Living people 1971 births 21st-century Saudi Arabian military personnel Medical examiners Forensic pathologists Saudi Arabian pathologists People convicted of murder by Saudi Arabia Alumni of the University of Glasgow King Faisal University alumni Saudi Arabian prisoners sentenced to death Saudi Arabian people convicted of murder People sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act 21st-century Saudi Arabian medical doctors {{Saudi-bio-stub

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