A UN Human Rights Council side event on slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 27, 2019. Panelists from left to right: Yahya Assiri, director of the U.K.-based Saudi human rights organization Al-Qst; CPJ Deputy Executive Director Robert Mahoney; David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; Barbora Bukovská, Article 19's senior director for law and policy; Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; and Dutch MP Pieter Omtzigt who is also the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's special rapporteur tasked with looking into the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. (Right Livelihood Award)
A UN Human Rights Council side event on slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 27, 2019. Panelists from left to right: Yahya Assiri, director of the U.K.-based Saudi human rights organization Al-Qst; CPJ Deputy Executive Director Robert Mahoney; David Kaye, the UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; Barbora Bukovská, Article 19's senior director for law and policy; Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; and Dutch MP Pieter Omtzigt who is also the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's special rapporteur tasked with looking into the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. (Right Livelihood Award)

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