Syria - Citizen journalist sentenced to death for Al-Jazeera interview

Reporters without borders

Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Reporters Without Borders is shocked to learn of the death sentence passed today on the citizen journalist Mohammed Abdelmawla al-Hariri for “high treason and contacts with foreign parties”. He was arrested on 16 April just after giving an interview to the television station Al-Jazeera about the situation in his hometown of Deraa. “Such a verdict is unacceptable and out of all proportion to Mohamed al-Hariri's so-called crime of giving an interview to Al-Jazeera,” the press (...)

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