

This past weekend, Hatice Cengiz, the woman who was engaged to marry Jamal Khashoggi, published an open letter to Bieber in The Washington Post. The bill also includes Western performers like A$AP Rocky, Jason Derulo, David Guetta, and Tïesto. Right now, Bieber is scheduled to headline a show that’ll follow the Formula One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jeddah December 5. Companies like the WWE who schedule events in Saudi Arabia have faced major backlash, and now Justin Bieber, who’s supposed to headline a show there next month, is facing a large-scale campaign to prevent him from taking part. There are all sorts of problems with the Saudi government, but the Khashoggi assassination is the incident that really turned public opinion against the royal family. MBS himself denied responsibility, but the CIA and UN investigators concluded that MBS had ordered Khashoggi’s assassination.


In apparent response, a group of operatives linked to MBS murdered and dismembered Khashoggi. Khashoggi had written critical Washington Post pieces about Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and the Saudi intervention in Yemen.
