The United Nations Human Rights Office announced yesterday it is
beginning an investigation into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal
Khashoggi.
In a statement, the UN said that an independent panel would seek to
establish “the nature and extent of states’ and individuals’
responsibilities for the killing”.
The UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions, Agnes Callamard, said she would travel to Turkey next week
to head an “independent international inquiry” into Khashoggi’s murder
in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October.
British barrister Helena Kennedy and Duarte Nuno Vieira, a pathology
expert and professor at the department of legal and forensic medicine at
Coimbra University, Portugal, are among the team. Along with Callamard,
they are to visit Turkey between 28 January and 3 February and plan to
report to the UN Human Rights Council in June.
Callamard said that the findings will be raised at the UN rights office on 19 June.
This announcement comes just days after a Turkish announcement that the
country is ready to conduct an investigation into Khashoggi’s murder.
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