Two Turkish journalists released
Adem Özköse and Hamit Coşkun were captured while making a documentary in northwestern Syria two months ago.
Writer arrested, held incommunicado
Salama Kila was arrested on 23 April 2012 for his writings about the recent events taking place in the country, and is considered to be at serious risk of torture and ill-treatment.
Another citizen journalist killed despite ceasefire plan
Abdul Ghani Kaakeh was deliberately targeted by the security forces, who had ordered him to stop filming moments before he was shot.
Syrian forces harass Sky News; hackers attack Ferzat
Syrian security forces harassed a credentialed camera crew from the British broadcaster Sky News as the team was filming an impromptu demonstration in Damascus.
Young activist faces possible death sentence
Yara Shammas is the daughter of Michel Shammas, a well-known human rights lawyer active on Facebook, and it is believed that “what is happening to [her] is clearly a way of putting pressure on [her father]”
Rights activists brought to trial, others still held incommunicado
Nineteen rights organisations condemn the ongoing secret detention of Mazen Darwish and four of his colleagues from the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, after seven of their colleagues and one visitor began trial under the military penal code.
Four citizen journalists killed despite ceasefire
Every day the violence in the country causes dozens of deaths and takes a heavy toll among journalists and citizen journalists, and information is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain, says RSF.
Journalist’s home destroyed by tanks, family’s passports seized
In a raid on Moussa Al-Omar’s family home in Idleb on 7 April, soldiers seized personal files, computers and the passports of members of his family, before driving tanks into the house and knocking it down.
Cameraman killed by cross-border gunfire
Ali Shaaban was struck in the chest while working in the northern Lebanese town of Wadi Khaled near the Syrian border.
Lives of citizen journalist and activist who helped resistance media in danger
Ali Mahmoud Othman, a Homs-based citizen journalist, was arrested in Aleppo and Noura Al-Jizawi, an activist working for opposition media, has gone missing in Damascus; a number of other journalists are also missing.
Two independent journalists killed
Naseem Intriri and Walid Bledi were in the country filming a documentary about Syrians escaping the conflict and fleeing to Turkey.
Kurdish citizen journalist kidnapped and murdered
Jawan Mohammed Qatna was active in the Kurdish youth movement and covered demonstrations in the mainly Kurdish region, supplying photographs to various media organisations.
Poet and blogger arrested; fears for safety
Dia’a Al-Abdullah was arrested on 13 February from his home in Asswaida by the Air Forces secret services after writing an open letter to the President, and remains detained incommunicado at an unknown location.
Journalists arrested in run-up to anniversary of uprising
Blogger Mohamed Abu Hajar was arrested on 14 March 2012 in the city of Tartus due to his writings on his blog entitled “Mazaj”.
Russia urged to back UN action to stop bloodshed, grant access to journalists
A coalition of 200 NGOs from 27 countries is demanding that the UN Security Council immediately unite and pass a resolution calling on the government to bring an immediate end to its indiscriminate shelling and attacks on peaceful protesters.
Two Turkish journalists and Syrian assistants kidnapped
Adem Özköse, Hamit Coşkun and the Syrians who were accompanying them were abducted by Shabiha militiamen in the pay of the Assad government at a checkpoint northeast of Idlib.