A top Saudi official reportedly threatened to kill the UN expert who investigated Khashoggi's murder

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A senior Saudi official leveled a death threat against Agnès Callamard, the United Nations special rapporteur who conducted an investigation into the brutal killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Guardian reported on Tuesday.

Callamard told the Guardian that a colleague in January 2020 told her a top Saudi official at a meeting with senior UN officials in Geneva the same month threatened twice to have her "taken care of."

She said that her colleagues in Geneva understood the comments to be "a death threat." The meeting involved Geneva-based Saudi diplomats, visiting Saudi officials, and UN officials. The Saudi officials were critical of Callamard's inquiry into Khashoggi's killing, the Guardian reported, and expressed anger about her conclusions. One of the visiting Saudi officials reportedly said he'd received phone calls from people prepared to "take care of" Callamard if the UN didn't take action.

The UN officials who were present pushed back on the remarks, as the other Saudi officials who were present sought to downplay the comments, according to the report.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-saudi-official-reportedly-threatened-153228593.html

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1. Kickin' with disgust!

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2. Putin's Russians or MBS's Saudis... which are worse, more murderous, more thuggish?

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3. Isn't using the word "reportedly" very much like saying this is "hearsay"? I haven't been

impressed lately by anything posted out of yahoo news. At all.

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4. U.N. confirms report on Saudi threat against Khashoggi investigator

By Stephanie Nebehay

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office said on Wednesday it confirmed the accuracy of published remarks by the independent expert who led an investigation into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi alleging that a senior Saudi official had made a threat against her.

The Guardian newspaper on Tuesday quoted Agnes Callamard, U.N. expert on summary killings, as saying a Saudi official had threatened she would be "taken care of" if she was not reined in following her investigation into the journalist's murder.

Saudi officials did not respond to a request for comment. Callamard did not respond when contacted by Reuters.

"We confirm that the details in the Guardian story about the threat aimed at Agnes Callamard are accurate," U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville said in an email reply to Reuters.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-n-confirms-report-saudi-204531695.html