Lawyers for a jailed Moroccan journalist on Friday urged a UN special rapporteur to request that authorities release his phone, to retrieve an “exchange of messages” with murdered Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
“Arbitrarily detained Moroccan journalist Taoufik Bouachrine’s defence urges Agnes Callamard, UN
Special Rapporteur” to make a request to the Moroccan authorities for access to Bouachrine’s phone, the detained journalist’s lawyers said in a statement.
Khashoggi — a contributor to the Washington Post and a critic of the Saudi government — was killed and dismembered in October at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul by a team of 15 agents sent from Riyadh.
His body has not been recovered.