Refugee Advocate Gets Rape Threats After Right-Wing Sting Video
Source: The Daily Beast
Breitbart and RT boosted this doctored video of an American activist. Then came threats of rape and murder.
David Axe
11.27.18 4:49 PM ET
The migrant “crisis” is not really much of a crisis anymore in the United States or in Europe, although you wouldn’t know that from all the talk of “invasion” on both continents. The number of border crossers and asylum seekers is far lower than in years past. But right-wing propagandists believe it’s a winning issue for them, and they have a long reach.
So one shouldn’t be surprised to find they extended their activities as far as Greece, where a man working with far-right Canadian author and YouTuber doctored a secretly recorded video in an effort to discredit aid workers helping asylum seekers on the little island of Lesbos.
Breitbart and RT [Russia Today], have repeated the propagandists' lies — and now at least one aid worker is getting death threats, making her life-saving tasks all the more difficult.
Ariel Ricker, the American director of Advocates Abroad, a nonprofit group that assists refugees and other asylum-seekers, said she was having coffee in a café on Lesbos when a young man whom she knew as a journalist named "Josh" approached her.
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I'm afraid that it will get worse before it gets better. 
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