Ten months following their abduction, the ordeal of the four French journalists kidnapped in Syria came to an end after they were released in circumstances of which details have not yet been provided. On 18/4/2014, the Turkish authorities found the French journalists with their hands tied and their eyes covered on the Syrian-Turkish borders. They […]
Daily Reports on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 18/04/2014
The death toll on Friday 18/4/2014 reached 142 deaths including five women and seven children. Twenty-three civilians were killed in the city of Aleppo and its suburbs, including two families killed in shelling last night at the Baab al-Hadid neighbourhood. In addition five civilians were killed in shelling on al-Mukambu neighbourhood (Aleppo) and five were […]
Spanish Journalist Released
It was announced today in Madrid that the Spanish Journalist Mark Margenidas was released. Mark Margenidas was abducted in Hama on 3/9/2013, after stopping at an ISIS checkpoint. The Spanish newspaper El Periodico, for whom Margenidas works, said that he was currently in Turkey with the company of Spanish officials, and where he was undergoing […]
‘Nearly 500’ killed in Syria rebel infighting
Clashes between Syrian rebel and fighters from an al-Qaeda-linked group have killed nearly 500 people in northern Syria over the past week, according to a monitoring group . The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says that at least 482 people have been killed in the fighting that has pitted a loose alliance of rebel […]
THREE CITIZEN-JOURNALISTS AMONG HOSTAGES EXECUTED BY ISIS
Reporters Without Borders has learned that at least three citizen-journalists were among the approximately 50 detainees that the group called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) massacred on 6 January before withdrawing from the Qadi Asqar district of Aleppo. The three known citizen-journalists killed in the massacre were Maher Hasroumi, Amin Abu Ahmad […]
Polish Journalist Marcin Suder is Free
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has come to know that the Polish journalist Marcin Suder, who was abducted on 24/7/2013, escaped from his captivity. He was abducted when an armed group raided the media office of Saraqeb (Idlib), and began beating the activist Manhal Barsh, and then abducted Suder, who was training media activists […]