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'UN should lead criminal investigation into Khashoggi killing'

United Nations, Jun 27 (UNI) All members of the global community -- the United Nations included -- should do more to protect human rights defenders and dissidents, Special Rapporteur Agnès Callamard has said, as she repeated her call for an international probe into the murder of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.
Presenting her report into the Saudi dissident’s killing last October in Istanbul, the UN-appointed independent rights expert told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday that there was credible evidence supporting an additional investigation into the role of high officials in the kingdom, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
“The evidence gathered by the inquiry suggests that the killing of Mr. Khashoggi constituted an extrajudicial execution, and enforced disappearance, and possibly an act of torture, for which the State of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is responsible. There are numerous theories as to the circumstances of Mr Khashoggi’s death, but none leads other than to the responsibility of the State.”
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