Geneva - Sana
The United Nations Human Rights Office confirmed today the accuracy of the statements made by the UN investigator, Agnes Callamard, that she was twice threatened with death by officials of the Saudi regime against the background of her investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
"We confirm that the details of the threat directed at Callamard are accurate," Reuters quoted the office's spokesman Robert Colville as saying in an e-mail response to a meeting in Geneva in January 2020.
According to what Callamard revealed to the British newspaper The Guardian in an interview published yesterday, “Colleagues at the United Nations informed her in January 2020 that a Saudi official threatened to deal with her, which she said was an implicit threat, and she and others understood that it was a threat to her life.”
Callamard added that her colleagues were witness to the threats against her during a high-level meeting with Saudi diplomats residing in the Swiss city of Geneva and officials from the Kingdom who were visiting the city and understood the threats as death threats.
Callamard, the former reporter for extrajudicial, extrajudicial and arbitrary killings published a nearly 100-page report in June 2019 that concluded that there was "credible evidence" that the Crown Prince of the Saudi regime, Mohammed bin Salman, and other Saudi officials were responsible for Khashoggi's killing.