Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi: Difference between revisions

 

The Knight First Amendment Institute at [[Columbia University]] filed a lawsuit against five US intelligence services "seeking immediate release of records concerning U.S. intelligence agencies' compliance or non-compliance with their 'duty to warn' reporter Jamal Khashoggi of threats to his life or liberty". The [[Committee to Protect Journalists]] joined the legal effort.<ref>{{cite web |title=US intelligence being sued for failing to warn Khashoggi of threat |url=https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181121-us-intelligence-being-sued-for-failing-to-warn-khashoggi-of-threat/ |publisher=The Middle East Monitor |date=21 November 2018 |access-date=22 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181123004610/https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181121-us-intelligence-being-sued-for-failing-to-warn-khashoggi-of-threat/ |archive-date=23 November 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Knight Institute Sues to Learn Whether U.S. Intelligence Agencies Complied With "Duty to Warn" Reporter Jamal Khashoggi of Threats to His Life |url=https://knightcolumbia.org/news/knight-institute-sues-learn-whether-us-intelligence-agencies-complied-duty-warn-reporter-jamal |publisher=Knight First Amendment Institute |date=20 November 2018 |access-date=22 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716083047/https://knightcolumbia.org/news/knight-institute-sues-learn-whether-us-intelligence-agencies-complied-duty-warn-reporter-jamal |archive-date=16 July 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

 

On 16 November, [[Central Intelligence Agency]] employees who internally analyzed multiple sources of intelligence concluded that Mohammed bin Salman ordered Khashoggi's assassination.<ref name="cia" /> On 20 November, US President [[Donald Trump]] disputed the CIA assessment and stated that the investigation into Khashoggi's death had to continue.<ref name="nov20" /> The [[National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020|2020 National Defense Authorization Act]] required the U.S. intelligence community to share the report on who was responsible for Khashoggi's murder, but the Trump administration refused to release the report.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web|date=19 January 2021|title=Biden intel chief nominee vows to release Khashoggi murder report|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/19/biden-intel-chief-nominee-pledges-to-release-khashoggi-report|access-date=19 January 2021|agency=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]|archive-date=19 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119201657/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/19/biden-intel-chief-nominee-pledges-to-release-khashoggi-report|url-status=live}}</ref>

 

==External links==

* [https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/RegularSessions/Session41/Documents/A_HRC_41_CRP.1.docx Annex to the Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions: Investigation into the unlawful death of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi] (19 June 2019), [[United Nations Human Rights Council]], 41st Session (24 June – 12 July 2019)

* [https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jamal-khashoggi Khashoggi's columns for ''The Washington Post'']