Saudi Arabia allegedly threatened to kill two Al Jazeera presenters

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Al Jazeera presenter Jamal Rayyan revealed that he has received several death threats from Saudi intelligence agencies after criticising the kingdom and asking the monarch, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, to apologise to Qatar.

He took to the twitter, “I received three death threats in a week from the Saudi intelligence. They threatened to shoot me or kill me in the same way they did with martyr Jamal Khashoggi, in order to stop me from criticising Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses and religious persecution of oppositionists. Do Saudis approve of such threats?”

He demanded Saudi Arabia to cut ties with the UAE, adding that the kingdom’s sovereignty has been hijacked by Abu Dhabi.

In a similar incident, another Al Jazeera television presenter Ghada Oueiss revealed that pro-Saudi social media accounts dubbed “electronic flies” have launched an intimidation campaign against her reporting of the murder of Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated inside the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey in 2018.

Al Jazeera television presenter Ghada Oueiss, 21 April 2020 [AlBawabaEntz ]

Oueiss revealed that there were also attempts to hack into her mobile phone, computer and email.

“I am still exposed to all kinds of intimidation, obscenity, fabrications, threats and rumours on social media as well as various attempts to penetrate my phone, my computer and my email although they do not carry any secrets,” Oueiss maintained.

Noteworthy, the campaign started after she reported that Saudi authorities had stolen Khashoggi’s passport from his home in Washington prior to his assassination in order to force him to return to the kingdom.

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