A senior Saudi official denied on Thursday he had threatened to harm the human rights expert who led the UN investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after the United Nations backed the expert’s account of the threat.

Agnes Callamard, the UN expert on summary killings, has said that a Saudi official threatened at a January 2020 meeting in Geneva that she would be “taken care of” if she was not reined in following her investigation into the journalist’s murder.