Suspicions over the role of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in the coldblooded murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi returned to the spotlight Wednesday, as a special U.N. investigator called for a criminal investigation of high-level Saudi officials.
Agnes Callamard, a human rights expert who is a special rapporteur for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, released a 101-page report on her months-long inquiry into Khashoggi’s death last year at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
Callamard faulted the United States and other countries for not exerting more pressure on Saudi Arabia despite “credible evidence” that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was likely involved in some way. She called for sanctioning and freezing the prince’s assets until he is either cleared or implicated by a U.N. investigation.