Syria - Targeted killings and forced confessions condemned

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Read in Arabic (بالعربية) Syria's state-owned national television reports that Naji Assaad, a retired journalist who continued to work for the government daily Tishreen, was killed today outside his home in the south Damascus suburb of Tadamun as he was leaving to go to the newspaper. The TV station described his death as a “terrorist act targeting the nation's lifeblood.” In a separate development, Mohamed Al-Khal, a citizen journalist better known as Abu Bilel Al-Diri, was killed during government (...)

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