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UN investigator in Khashoggi case says she was threatened by Saudi official

Agnes Callamard told The Guardian that a UN colleague informed her a visiting Saudi official threatened to have her "taken care of" during a meeting in Geneva in January 2020.
Agnes Callamard

A top Saudi official last year issued a death threat against Agnes Callamard, the United Nations special investigator who probed the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Callamard told The Guardian that a UN colleague informed her that a visiting Saudi official twice threatened to have Callamard "taken care of" during a meeting of Saudi and UN officials in Geneva in January 2020.

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