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Khashoggi fiancee Cengiz demands further UN investigations

Khashoggi fiancee Cengiz demands further UN investigations

June 25, 2019 | 07:25 PM
Turkish writer and fiancee of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi Hatice Cengiz attends a side event during the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva
The death of Saudi dissident journalist JamalKhashoggi warrants further UN investigations, his fiancee HaticeCengiz said on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN Human RightsCouncil in Geneva.At the council on Wednesday, UN rights expert Agnes Callamard is setto present her report into Khashoggi's death inside the Saudiconsulate in Istanbul in October. Callamard has concluded that Riyadhwas responsible for his "deliberate, premeditated execution." "The truth is out and it is clear. The findings of the report are acall for action," Turkish writer Cengiz said, speaking in her nativelanguage through an English translator.Cengiz attended a discussion that was organized by the Brussels-basedgroup No Peace Without Justice, whose causes include internationalcriminal accountability and democracy in the Middle East. Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, saidat the same event that "silence is not an option." "Silence is feeding injustice," she added.
June 25, 2019 | 07:25 PM