The Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkol Karman condemned the Saudi government's threat to the world that it would respond to any punitive measures against it in light of the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in her consulate in Istanbul.

Tawakkol said that the Saudi threat is a guilty acknowledge of committing the crime of hiding Khashoggi.

"Otherwise, why is it [Saudi] afraid of sanctions? Why does it expect that there will be punitive measures against it? if you were not guilty? If you are not guilty, you should be the one who takes the punitive sanctions against the killers of Khashoggi," Karman said on her official Facebook page. 

Khashoggi added: "Khashoggi is a Saudi citizen, and if you were not responsible for his disappearance, you would have not kept silence and you would have accused Turkey and others and hold them responsible since the first day of his disappearance, instead of being just patient and silent towards accusation against you and holding you responsible for a long   period,” she said. “When you responded with a statement ten days later just to threaten that you will punish anyone who may impose sanctions against, so you are the guilty who is about to say  “Take me!!”

"The disappearance, torture and killing of Jamal Khashoggi in your consulate in Istanbul is a terrorist crime against humanity. It is the issue of a global public opinion that demands that criminals must be punished and it will not be silent until they [the criminals] receive their fair punishment, from the mastermind to the last perpetrator. It is a global public opinion issue that does not subject to political settlements and deals.