Hard National Security Choices
Support Saturday, June 10, 2023
Menu

Avi Asher-Schapiro

aasherschapiro's picture

Avi Asher-Schapiro is a research associate and tech reporter at the Committee to Protect Journalists. Before joining CPJ, he worked as a staff writer at VICE News, International Business Times/Newsweek and Tribune Media. His reporting on technology and human rights issues has been published in outlets including the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly and the Intercept.

Subscribe to this Lawfare contributor via RSS.

Trump Administration

Did the Trump Administration Warn Jamal Khashoggi He Was in Danger?

Avi Asher-Schapiro   Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 8:30 AM

In September 2017, in his first column for the Washington Post, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi described the repression in his home country as “unbearable” and called out Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for creating an environment of “fear” and “intimidation.” A year later, Khashoggi was murdered by a Saudi hit squad.