UN Special Rapporteur Agnès Callamard and David Kaye called on the United States and other stakeholders to investigate suspected Saudi Arabia hacking Jeff Bezos' phone.

Callamard and Kaye, two UN special rapporteurs on murder without trial and freedom of speech, released a joint statement on January 22 saying they had information indicating "the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia may be involved." about spying on Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, in an attempt to influence or prevent the Washington Post from reporting on Saudi Arabia. "

The cybersecurity experts that Bezos hired concluded his phone might have been compromised through a video file sent from the WhatsApp account that was supposed to belong to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2018. A large amount of data was hacked. leaked from the phone about a month later.

Bezos, the richest man in the world, is the owner of the Washington Post, which reported on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2018. US officials suspect Khashoggi's murder may have been approved by Crown Prince Mohammed, but Saudi Arabia has denied it.

In December 2019, an Saudi court acquitted the senior aides of Crown Prince Mohammed in the murder of a journalist. The court ruling was condemned by the international community as a "judicial farce".

Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud denied a phone hacking issue on January 22. "I think it is necessary to use this ridiculous word to describe this issue," he said when attending the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "The assumption that the Crown Prince hacking Jeff Bezos' phone is completely silly."