UN rights investigator Agnes Callamard named Amnesty chief
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The international human rights group said Ms. Callamard’s four-year term as secretary general begins on Monday.
Agnes Callamard, who led a United Nations’ investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has been appointed the new leader of Amnesty International. The international human rights group said Ms. Callamard’s four-year term as secretary general begins on Monday. Ms. Callamard, a French human rights expert, has previously led free-speech organization Article 19 and directs the Global Freedom of Expression Project at Columbia University. As the U.N.’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, she investigated the killing of Khashoggi, who entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 to pick up some documents, and never walked out.More Related News
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