UN Rights Expert Independently Investigates Khashoggi Murder

Expand Khashoggi AP The decision by the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Agnes Callamard, to investigate the brutal killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi shows courage and initiative. It is likely to anger Saudi Arabia and the kingdom’s allies. And it contrasts with the reluctance of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to work with Turkey to set up a UN investigation following Khashoggi’s torture and murder by a team of Saudi officials in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018. Guterres told reporters earlier in January he couldn’t launch a…

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