UN experts respond to US Khashoggi killing report

United Nations officials on Monday slammed the U.S. for not taking enough action against Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman after it released a report implicating him in the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The declassified U.S. intelligence report released last Friday suggested Prince Mohammed likely approved the October 2018 killing of Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Agnès Callamard, U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said the findings were an "important demonstration" of Washington's renewed commitment to transparency.

But she added it was "extremely dangerous" that no U.S. sanctions had been announced against Prince Mohammed.

"It is extremely in my view problematic, if not dangerous, to acknowledge someone's culpability and then to tell that someone 'but we don't do anything, please proceed as if we had said nothing'," Callamard said.

She also suggested the report didn't provide any new factual information.

Saudi Arabia has forcefully rejected the report's conclusions.