UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday urged Saudi Arabia to be more transparent in its investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last week. “Mr Khashoggi entered the Consulate and has never been seen since, [so] the onus is on the Saudi authorities to reveal what happened to him from that point onwards,” she said.

Khashoggi is a Saudi journalist who, after writing columns in The Washington Post critical of the ruling family, went into exile in Turkey. Last week, he disappeared into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and did not emerge, and intelligence agencies from around the world claim evidence of his death.

In her statement, Bachelet encouraged the waiver of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, which provides protection for consular staff. Under this convention, embassies and consulates cannot be searched without international authority. The UN, however, believes that this issue is grave enough for immediate search of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with King Salman in Riyadh and “agreed on the importance of a thorough, transparent, and timely investigation that provides answers.”

In its press release, the UN reminded the public that 2018 is the 70th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which the international governing body encourages all nations adhere.