Turkey Should Seek Follow-Up Inquiry on Khashoggi Killing

Expand Candles lit by activists protesting the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are placed outside Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul.  © 2018 Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo “It was premeditated,” concluded Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, describing the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. She added that the Washington Post reporter’s assassination on October 2, 2018 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul was “overseen, planned, and endorsed by high-level officials.” In her long-awaited report to the Human Rights Council, Callamard found credible…

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