Saud al-Qahtani had been suspended permanently on Twitter before Elon Musk took over and rebranded it as X

A key Saudi suspect in the murder of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 has had his account reinstated on X, the social media company controlled by Elon Musk, after it was permanently suspended under the company’s previous owner.

Saud al-Qahtani, a onetime key adviser to Mohammed bin Salman, had “direct involvement” in the murder of Khashoggi, according to a US intelligence assessment released by the Biden administration in 2021.