Syria - Two more foreign reporters missing, war's collateral victims

Reporters Without Borders is deeply concerned to learn that Domenico Quirico, an Italian journalist working for the Turin-based daily La Stampa, has been missing in Syria for the past three weeks. The Brussels evening newspaper Le Soir has also revealed that Pierre Piccinin de Prata, a Belgian academic and political scientist who was reporting for the paper, has also disappeared in Syria. Reporters Without Borders is outraged by what is happening to professional news providers in Syria. (...)

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