A New York judge on Tuesday ordered US intelligence agencies to acknowledge they possess a tape recording of the 2018 murder of Saudi
Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in a ruling hailed by rights activists.
The judge also instructed the Central Intelligence Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to explain why they are
withholding the tape and a CIA report on the gruesome killing.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was suffocated and dismembered inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate after going inside to get documents for his marriage to his Turkish fiancee.
The October 2, 2018 murder sparked an international outcry and tarnished the reputation of oil-rich Saudi Arabia and its powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.