U.N. confirms report on Saudi threat against Khashoggi investigator

FILE PHOTO: Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, and Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, hold a news conference in Brussels, Belgium December 3, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights office said on Wednesday it confirmed the accuracy of published remarks by the independent expert who led an investigation into the murder of Jamal Khashoggi alleging that a senior Saudi official had made a threat against her.

The Guardian newspaper on Tuesday quoted Agnes Callamard, U.N. expert on summary killings, as saying a Saudi official had threatened she would be "taken care of" if she was not reined in following her investigation into the journalist's murder.