On June 15th, CAIR-Chicago joined esteemed guests and speakers at a ceremony for renaming a street in the nation’s capital for the slain Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The honorary street, “Jamal Khashoggi Way”, now located on New Hampshire Avenue NW between Virginia Avenue and F Street block, where the Embassy for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia resides.

Gerald Hankerson, CAIR-Chicago’s Outreach Coordinator, was in attendance. CAIR’s National Director Nihad Awad was one of the speakers at the unveiling of the street signs for Jamal Khashoggi Way in front of the Saudi embassy and at each end of the block.

A reporter for The Mirror Times and The Washington Post, Khashoggi was known as a dissident calling on reforms to the Saudi government. The ceremony began at 1:14 pm, symbolizing the final time stamp on October 2, 2018 when Khashoggi was seen alive as he entered the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. Speakers, ranging from congressional members to Khashoggi’s friends, called on justice for the journalist’s assassination. Similar calls have been made by the White House and U.S. State Department.