Washington, June 19 -- Responding to the release of the UN report on the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which concludes that he was the victim of "an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under human rights law," and that "there is credible evidence, warranting further investigation of high-level Saudi officials' individual liability, including the Crown Prince's," Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International's Middle East Director of Research, said:
"We call on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to immediately take up the Special Rapporteur's recommendation to launch an international follow-up criminal investigation. The UN report confirms that the steps taken to date by Saudi Arabia to en...