Syria - Thirty-three professional and citizen journalists killed since March 2011

Reporters without borders

ٍRead in Arabic / بالعربية A total of 33 professional and citizen journalists have been killed since the start of the uprising in Syria in March 2001, Reporters Without Borders said today, after attending yesterday's meeting of the “Friends of Syria” in Paris as an observer. The past few weeks have been particularly deadly, with around 10 citizen journalists killed since late May. Reporters Without Borders is also very disturbed to learn that freelance journalist Mohamed Sami Al-Kayyal was arrested (...)

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