Death threats to the RT reporter in Aden
English - Saturday 06 June 2020 الساعة 07:05 pm
Aden, Newsyemen:
Journalist Salah Al-Aqel, correspondent for the Arabic-language channel Russia Today (RT) in the city of Aden, south of Yemen, received a direct threat of physical elimination from an unknown number.
Al-Aqel said: "I received threats from unknown numbers ... after the assassination of my colleague and brother Nabil, I sent messages that I will be next."
RT Director Margarita Simonyan said that Russia takes the threats very seriously, thanking the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian ambassador for their efforts in helping to evacuate the journalist and his family.
The threat of the sane journalist comes, days after the assassination of RUPTLY, RT and French agency correspondent Nabil Al-Qaiti by unknown gunmen near his house in the city of Aden.
