What really troubles the sons, their two sisters and their mother are the lies, they say, that have sprung up since Khashoggi's death.

MBS described Khashoggi as a "dangerous Islamist" in a phone call with top White House officials shortly after he disappeared, the Washington Post reported on Friday, a claim that Khashoggi’s family denied.

In a statement to the Post, the family said he was not a member of the group. “He denied such claims repeatedly over the past several years.”

“Jamal Khashoggi was not a dangerous person in any way possible. To claim otherwise would be ridiculous,” the statement said.

Asked on Sunday how Khashoggi should be remembered, Salah replied, "as a moderate man who has common values with everyone... a man who loved his country, who believed so much in it and its potential".

He added: "Jamal was never a dissident. He believed in the monarchy, that it is the thing that is keeping the country together. And he believed in the transformation that it is going through."

MBS has publicly backed a Saudi economic diversification and social reform plan called Vision 2030.

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