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Rights expert Agnes Callamard named new Amnesty chief

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Amnesty International announced on Monday it had appointed global human rights expert Agnes Callamard as its new secretary general with immediate effect.

The London-based rights group said it chose Callamard, who led the recent high-profile UN probe into the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, following an extensive global search.

"I am honored to take up the post of secretary general and work alongside Amnesty's supporters around the world so that together we defend and demand respect for all human rights for all," she said in a statement. She had held the role of director of the Global Freedom of Expression initiative at Columbia University since 2013.

A Saudi insider-turned-critic who wrote for The Washington Post newspaper, he was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

 

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