Two UN Sleuths Linked Saudi Crown Prince to Bezos Phone Hack

The United Nations is known for issuing bland pronouncements that skirt the differences among its member nations. Yet that didn’t stop two UN-appointed experts in Geneva from suggesting the powerful Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia may have been behind a hack of Jeff Bezos’s mobile phone.

The account was the joint work of two strong-willed specialists, known as special rapporteurs, for the UN Human Rights Council, who already have made their mark with outspoken assessments: Agnes Callamard, who conducted an investigation into the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, and David Kaye, who specializes in freedom of expression in the digital age.