{"id":7296,"date":"2021-03-25T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2021-03-25T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T12:31:11","slug":"saudi-official-denies-death-threat-made-to-un-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/03\/25\/saudi-official-denies-death-threat-made-to-un-investigator\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi official denies death threat made to UN investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Saudi official said on Thursday he rejected claims that he issued a death threat against UN investigator Agnes Callamard following her probe into journalist Jamal Khashoggi&#8217;s\u00a02018 murder.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting with UN officials in Geneva in January 2020, a senior Saudi official had twice threatened to have Callamard &#8220;taken care of&#8221; if she was not restrained by the United Nations, the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0newspaper\u00a0reported this week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7298\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Saudi-official-denies-death-threat-made-to-UN-investigator-rapidnews.jpg\" alt=\"Saudi-official-denies-death-threat-made-to-UN-investigator-rapidnews\" width=\"800\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Saudi-official-denies-death-threat-made-to-UN-investigator-rapidnews.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Saudi-official-denies-death-threat-made-to-UN-investigator-rapidnews-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Saudi-official-denies-death-threat-made-to-UN-investigator-rapidnews-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Without naming the Saudi official, Callamard \u2014 the UN&#8217;s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions \u2014 told the British newspaper that the comment was perceived by her Geneva-based colleagues as a &#8220;death threat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Awwad Alawwad, the head of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Human Rights Commission, said on Thursday that Callamard and UN officials believed he had made the threat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I reject this suggestion in the strongest terms,&#8221; Alawwad, who is the kingdom\u2019s former media minister, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I cannot recall the exact conversations, I never would have desired or threatened any harm upon a UN-appointed individual, or anyone for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am disheartened that anything I have said could be interpreted as a threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It has come to my attention that Ms. Agnes Callamard of Amnesty International and some U.N. officials believe I somehow made a veiled threat against her more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0639\u0648\u0627\u062f \u0628\u0646 \u0635\u0627\u0644\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0648\u0627\u062f Awwad Alawwad (@AwwadSAlawwad) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AwwadSAlawwad\/status\/1374972939037184001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"template__main  clearfix    modifier--open        px-1 w-full sm:w-2\/3 mx-auto\">\n<div class=\"story__content  overflow-hidden    text-4  sm:text-4.5        pt-1  mt-1\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>There was no immediate comment from Callamard or the UN.<\/p>\n<p>Khashoggi, a Saudi insider-turned-critic who wrote for\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>, was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>The gruesome murder by Saudi agents tarnished the reputation of de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and plunged the kingdom into its biggest diplomatic crisis in years.<\/p>\n<p>Callamard&#8217;s report,\u00a0published in June 2019, concluded that there was &#8220;credible evidence&#8221; that top Saudi officials, including Prince Mohammed, were liable for the killing.<\/p>\n<p>Late last month, Washington released a long-delayed\u00a0intelligence report\u00a0that accused Prince Mohammed of approving Khashoggi&#8217;s murder. 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