India is the latest member of a growing assassination club
India has started using homicide to advance its international and domestic agenda
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India has started using homicide to advance its international and domestic agenda
Cross-border murders have returned as a tool of statecraft.
Jon Gerberg/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe widow of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, was granted political asylum in the United States late last month. “I couldn’t really believe it,” Hanan Elatr told the Post of reading her approval letter. “I said, ‘Is this real?’ I couldn’t digest it.” Elatr, a former Emirates flight attendant, was born in Egypt and married Khashoggi in Northern Virginia four months before his death.
The wife of murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been granted political asylum in the United States.
“I can feel more safe now that I’m not afraid to be handed over to any dictator in the Middle East,” Hanan Elatr told The New York Times.