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January 23, 2020

U.N. Experts Accuse Saudi Crown Prince of Hacking Jeff Bezos's Phone
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United Nations experts are accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman of personally hacking Jeff Bezos's cellphone in 2018 in order to
influence or silence The Washington Post's coverage of Saudi Arabia.
Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post. At the time of the hack, the
newspaper was reporting critically on the assassination of its
columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, whose murder has been linked to the crown
prince. This is the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings,
Agnès Callamard.

Agnès Callamard: "The story places, yet again, the crown prince of Saudi
Arabia at the heart of a campaign that resulted into the killing of
Jamal Khashoggi. And as you may recall, my investigation into the
killing of Jamal Khashoggi stopped short of determining the nature and
the extent of the role of the crown prince. I suggested that there were
several options, from him ordering the killing to him engaging in some
form of criminal negligence by failing to protect Mr. Khashoggi."



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