List of detained bloggers and journalists gets longer amid pro-regime rallies
27 October 2011Reporters 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 to provide information about the circumstances and reason for his detention.
British journalist Sean McAllister has meanwhile revealed that he was detained by the authorities in Damascus for five days last week while working undercover on a report for Channel 4 News. He has given Channel 4 some grim insights into the mistreatment and torture of government opponents in Syrian prisons .
Here is a list of journalists, bloggers and cyber-activists currently detained in Syria. It is almost certainly incomplete:
Sounding the alarm about Ghoureir’s “disappearance,” online activists have called on the Syrian authorities to provide information about the circumstances and reason for his detention.
British journalist Sean McAllister has meanwhile revealed that he was detained by the authorities in Damascus for five days last week while working undercover on a report for Channel 4 News. He has given Channel 4 some grim insights into the mistreatment and torture of government opponents in Syrian prisons .
Here is a list of journalists, bloggers and cyber-activists currently detained in Syria. It is almost certainly incomplete:
