The Washington Post has published the last column Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi wrote before he disappeared on Oct. 2 after entering the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul.
“We held on to this column he filed the day before he entered the consulate in the hopes that we could edit it with him, as we normally did,” Fred Hiatt, who runs the Post‘s Opinions section, told NPR.
“And we waited, and we waited, and I think the fact that we published today is kind of an acknowledgement to ourselves, as well as to the world, that we don’t have much hope that we’re going to be able to edit this one with him or that we’ll ever be getting another column from him,” Hiatt said.
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