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GENEVA / JAMAL KHASHOGGI REAX
STORY: GENEVA / JAMAL KHASHOGGI REAX
TRT: 2:02
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
DATELINE: 16 OCTOBER 2018 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior shot, Palais des Nations
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3. Med shot, journalists, podium in background
4. Closeup, journalist
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Today the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is urging the Governments of Saudi Arabia and Turkey to reveal everything they know about the disappearance and possible extra-judicial killing of the prominent Saudi journalist after he visited his country’s consulate in Istanbul.”
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8. SOUNDBITE (English)Rupert Colville, Spokesperson, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Enforced disappearance or murder, if that has occurred, extra-judicial killing, either way, those are very serious crimes. So, and the one thing we really know as a solid fact is that Mr. Khashoggi went into the consulate and he never came out again, he was never seen coming out again. So, it seems very probable some crime or other has been committed. We all need to know what it was, how it happened and who was responsible and where the evidence leads.”
9. Med shot, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, spokesperson, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“In view of the seriousness of the situation surrounding the disappearance of Mr Khashoggi, the High Commissioner believes the inviolability or immunity of the relevant premises and officials bestowed by treaties such as the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, should be waived immediately.”
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12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rupert Colville, spokesperson, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“Two weeks is a very long time for the probable scene of a crime not to be subject to a forensic investigation.”
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14. SOUNDBITE (English)Rupert Colville, spokesperson, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):
“The bottom line, in answer to your question is, anyone responsible should be held accountable; and that means anyone, you know, committed a crime or who was involved in the planning of the crime or executing it, there should be accountability; if it’s a serious crime, that’s a fundamental principle of law; national law and international law.”
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The UN’s top human rights official has called on Saudi Arabia and Turkey to “reveal everything they know” about the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi.
The Saudi journalist and critic of the Kingdom has not been seen since he visited his country’s consulate in Istanbul on the afternoon of 2 October, UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet noted in a statement.
Speaking to journalists in Geneva amid reports that details of Khashoggi’s death may surface, indicating that it was an accident, UN human rights office (OHCHR) spokesperson Rupert Colville noted that the High Commissioner believed that “two weeks is a very long time for the probable scene of a crime not to be subject to a forensic investigation.”
Colville said “today the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is urging the Governments of Saudi Arabia and Turkey to reveal everything they know about the disappearance and possible extra-judicial killing of the prominent Saudi journalist after he visited his country’s consulate in Istanbul.”
He noted that the High Commissioner’s written appeal to both countries also called for diplomatic immunity to be “waived immediately”, to allow for a “prompt, thorough, effective, impartial and transparent investigation”.
Colville said “in view of the seriousness of the situation surrounding the disappearance of Mr Khashoggi, the High Commissioner believes the inviolability or immunity of the relevant premises and officials bestowed by treaties such as the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, should be waived immediately.”
The OHCHR spokesperson noted that the UN rights chief had welcomed the agreement between Saudi Arabia and Turkey that has allowed investigators to enter the consulate and possibly the residence of the Saudi Arabian Consul-General in Istanbul.
But potentially serious crimes had been committed, he explained, and the perpetrators should be held accountable.
He said “enforced disappearance or murder, if that has occurred, extra-judicial killing, either way, those are very serious crimes,” adding that “the one thing we really know as a solid fact is that Mr. Khashoggi went into the consulate and he never came out again, he was never seen coming out again.”
It seemed “very probable” that some crime had been committed, Colville added, before insisting that “we all need to know what it was, how it happened and who was responsible and where the evidence leads”.
Responding to a question about whether there was a chance that the probe into Khashoggi’s disappearance risked becoming a “whitewash”, Colville said there was no question of impunity.
He said “anyone responsible should be held accountable, and that means anyone, you know, (who) committed a crime or who was involved in the planning of the crime or executing it,” adding that “there should be accountability; if it’s a serious crime, that’s a fundamental principle of law; national law and international law.”
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