Saudi Arabia’s closed-door trials hearing cases of 11 people, five of whom face the death penalty
Agnes Callamard, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, wants those charged in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi named.An independent U.N. human rights expert has denounced Saudi Arabia’s closed-door trials of suspects in the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and called on the kingdom to name the defendants.
Callamard said in a statement Thursday that the Saudi government invited representatives from the five countries to attend some court hearings.She said China, France, Britain, Russia and the United States “risk being participants in a potential miscarriage of justice” and could be “complicit” if the trials turn out to involve violations of human rights law.
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