Lamiya Adilgizi
Lamiya Adilgizi is CPJ's Russia correspondent, based in Berlin. Her previous work has been featured by the BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Forbidden Stories, openDemocracy, and other international outlets. She speaks Azerbaijani, Turkish, Russian, German, and English. Follow her on LinkedIn.
Home or exile? Syrian journalists grapple with new realities post-Assad
Berlin, July 3, 2025—After almost 14 years of civil war, the lightning overthrow of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad in December has unleashed the possibility of returning home for hundreds of exiled journalists. For Ahmad Primo, who was arrested by the government for reporting that the 2011 protests were a revolution and then jailed by Islamic…