Stating that UN official might be ‘taken care of’ was not threat, says Saudi official
UN expert on summary killings says the Saudi threatened her at a January 2020 meeting relating to Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
25 March 2021 - 14:33
Dubai — A senior Saudi official has denied that he had threatened to harm the human rights expert who led the UN investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after the UN confirmed the expert’s account of the threat.
Agnès Callamard, the UN expert on summary killings, has said that a Saudi official, at a January 2020 meeting in Geneva, threatened that she would be “taken care of” if she was not reined in following her investigation into the journalist’s murder...
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