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U.N. team says Saudis working to undermine Khashoggi inquiry

The four-member U.N. team went to Ankara and Istanbul and their report to the U.N. Human Rights Council is due in June.

,   and  John Heilprin
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Protest outside London's Natural History Museum where the Saudis held a celebration
Protest outside London's Natural History Museum where the Saudis held a celebration (AN/John Lubbock)

GENEVA (AN) — The U.N. team investigating Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death said preliminary evidence showed it was a "premeditated killing" that was planned and carried out by Saudi officials, who then "undermined" Turkey’s efforts to determine what happened.

United Nations special investigator Agnès Callamard and team members Helena Kennedy, a lawyer and baroness, Duarte Nuno Vieira, a professor of forensic medicine, and Paul Johnston, a homicide and major crimes investigator, spent a week investigating the case in Turkey.

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Justice & Accountability — Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) — Saudi Arabia — Turkey — U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) — United Nations (U.N.) — Middle East — United States (U.S.)

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