Saudi Arabia - Call for independent probe into journalist's death in police raid

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls for an investigation into the death of Hussein Ali Madan Al-Faraj, a photographer and cameraman known as the “Revolution's Journalist”, in the eastern governorate of Al-Qatif on 20 February. Police killed Al-Faraj during a raid on the town of Al-Awamiyah with the aim of locating participants in a long series of anti-government protests in the region. Al-Faraj, who had covered all the protests and funerals of protesters killed by the security forces since 2011, (...)

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