The widow of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who was murdered in 2018, has been granted political asylum in the U.S., according to The Washington Post.
“Thank you to @RepDonBeyer @timkaine @danapriest @washingtonpost for your powerful help in getting me political asylum and telling the truth. Not done yet in getting #JusticeforJamal @JKhashoggi,” Hanan Elatr said in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, on Thursday.
Elatr included a link in the post to an article from the Washington Post, where her husband previously worked, about her newfound asylum. According to the Post, the decision on her asylum came this month.
“I couldn’t really believe it,” Elatr said in the wake of reading a letter on the decision, per the Post. “I said, ‘Is this real?’ I couldn’t digest it.”
Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, was murdered while in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.