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Syria - Mazen Darwish free at last

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is relieved to learn that, after more than three years of arbitrary detention, well-known Syrian journalist and human rights defender Mazen Darwish has been released conditionally pending a verdict expected on 31 August. Darwish's wife, Yara Bader, confirmed today that he has been freed under an amnesty that the Syrian government issued on 18 July, at the end of Ramadan. “We are relieved that Mazen Darwish is free again and we are now waiting for the court to find (...)

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