On Tuesday 8 September, the European Parliament Sub-Committee on Human Rights gave its full support to Agnès Callamard’s conclusions in the case of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, “in her capacity as independent human rights expert and special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions”.
A few hours earlier, Callamard had stated that the verdicts in the case carried “no legal or moral legitimacy, at the end of a process which was neither fair, nor just, or...