Syria - List of detained bloggers and journalists gets longer amid pro-regime rallies

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders is worried about Hossein Ghoureir, a blogger who has been reported missing by his colleagues and who has probably been arrested. Aged 30 and the father of two children, he has organized and participated in many Palestinian solidarity campaigns. In his blog, he condemned the war in Lebanon in 2006 and campaigned against Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights. Sounding the alarm about Ghoureir's “disappearance,” online activists have called on the Syrian authorities (...)

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