Lawrence Fahmy al-Naimi
Al-Naimi, the head of live-streaming for the citizen news organization Shaam News Network, was killed along with two colleagues–Ammar Mohamed Suhail Zado, Shaam’s Homs director, and Ahmed Adnan al-Ashlaq, a correspondent–while filming clashes between security forces and armed rebels in Damascus. The journalists were in an apartment in the Al-Midan neighborhood when their building was shelled…
Ahmed Adnan al-Ashlaq
Al-Ashlaq, a correspondent for the citizen news organization Shaam News Network, was killed along with two colleagues–Ammar Mohamed Suhail Zado, Shaam’s Homs director, and Lawrence Fahmy al-Naimi, the head of live streaming for the network–while filming clashes between security forces and armed rebels in Damascus. The journalists were in an apartment in the Al-Midan neighborhood…
Abdel Karim al-Oqda
Al-Oqda, a cameraman and reporter for the citizen news organization Shaam News Network, was killed when security forces launched an assault on his home in the central city of Hama, burning his house and killing three of his friends, according to Shaam and international media outlets citing local activists. News reports said soldiers killed al-Oqda…
Mohamed al-Khal
Al-Khal, a videographer who documented unrest in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, was killed in government shelling of the Hamidiya neighborhood while covering ongoing clashes between government forces and the rebel Free Syrian Army, according to DeirEzzorTV, a local news broadcaster, and the Shaam News Network. Al-Khal had contributed hundreds of hours of footage…
Shamil Gigayev
Gigayev, a cameraman for independent Nokh Cho Television in Grozny, and Ramzan Mezhidov, a freelance cameraman working for the Moscow-based TV Tsentr, were killed during a Russian air attack on refugees fleeing Chechnya. The journalists were covering a refugee convoy en route from Grozny to Nazran, in neighboring Ingushetia. As the convoy approached the Chechen town of…
Ramzan Mezhidov
Mezhidov, a freelance cameraman working for the Moscow-based TV Tsentr, and Shamil Gigayev, a cameraman for independent Nokh Cho Television in Grozny, were killed during a Russian air attack on refugees fleeing Chechnya. The journalists were covering a refugee convoy en route from Grozny to Nazran, in neighboring Ingushetia. As the convoy approached the…
Syrian photographer Abdul Nasser Haj Hamdan killed in Russian airstrike
Beirut, February 26, 2020 — Russian and Syrian military forces must ensure the safety of journalists and other civilians and hold those responsible for journalists’ deaths to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Syrian journalist injured in shelling in Idlib province
Ahmed al-Khatib, a reporter for the pro-opposition Edlib Media Center, was injured by shrapnel in Idlib province while covering a town’s shelling by the Syrian army on February 9, 2019, according to his employer, news reports, the local press freedom group Syrian Journalists’ Association, and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
Militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham threatens to execute Syrian journalist Amjed al-Maleh
Beirut, December 11, 2018–The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed grave concern about the fate of Syrian journalist Amjed al-Maleh. According to news reports, Syrian militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham threatened to execute al-Maleh, a Syrian freelance journalist and media activist from the southwestern Syrian city of Madaya whom the group had been holding captive…