Jamal Khashoggi’s secret wife says they were spied on before his killing: ‘We were monitored by a lot of countries’

Three years after murder, Hanan El-Atr asks world to secure justice for slain journalist, writes Andrew Buncombe

Hanan El-Atr and Jamal Khashoggi married four months before his murder (Hanan El-Atr)

The secret wife of Jamal Khashoggi has said she believes she and her husband were spied on by “many countries” in the months before the journalist’s murder.

In the three years since the Washington Post columnist was murdered, much attention has been paid to Hatice Cengiz, the Turkish student who accompanied him to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and whom he had reportedly asked to marry him.

Yet three months before his murder by Saudi agents in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, Khashoggi had wed Hanan El-Atr, 52, an Egyptian woman, in a Muslim ceremony in northern Virginia.