Posts Tagged ‘homs’
May 30th, 2012
A well-known
Syrian activist and filmmaker was
slain on Monday while filming clashes in Homs. Bassel Al Shahade was a Fulbright Scholar studying at Syracuse University before leaving his studies in film to document his country’s revolution at the start of unrest in Syria last year. Shahade had been in Homs for two months training citizen journalists before his death.
February 28th, 2012
UPDATE 15:37 28/02/11: France’s President Sarkozy has said that Le Figaro correspondent Edith Bouvier has escaped Homs and is in Lebanon. This has not been fully confirmed.
The Sunday Times has confirmed that British photographer Paul Conroy has escaped from the besieged city of Homs in Syria. Conroy, who was injured in the attack that killed war Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin and French journalist Remi Ochlik was smuggled out of the city by anti-government accidents and is now in Lebanon. There have been reports that several activists were killed by government forces during the escape. Several media workers remain trapped in Homs. The Syrian army’s elite 4th armoured division is
reported to have been deployed to Homs, prompting fears of a further escalation of the government assault on the city.
February 22nd, 2012
Marie Colvin, veteran war reporter for the Sunday Times,
was killed this morning with French photojournalist Remi Ochlik when a shell hit a makeshift media centre in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. Two other journalists are reportedly wounded, named as British freelance photographer Paul Conroy, who was working with Colvin, and Edith Bouvier of French newspaper Le Figaro. Citizen journalist Rami al-Sayed, who streamed live video footage from Homs, was also
killed this week in the shelling of the Baba Amr district of the city.
February 13th, 2012
Syrian journalist Mazhar Tayyara was
killed by government forces’ fire in the city of Homs, a centre of the Syrian resistance against President Bashar al-Assad, on 4 February. Tayyara, a stringer for Agence France-Presse and other international news organisations, was reporting from the Homs neighbourhood of Al-Khaldiyeh when government forces shelled the area. The journalist sustained multiple severe injuries and died in hospital within hours.
January 11th, 2012
A journalist from France 2 TV was reportedly
killed and another wounded today in an attack in the Syrian city of Homs. The rocket-propelled grenade blast killed journalist
Gilles Jacquier during a pro-government rally, which also resulted in the
deaths of eight civilians according to a state-owned television station. The attack came on the same day that a member of the Arab League group sent to monitor the country’s peace plan
resigned, claiming the mission was a “farce”. According to the UN, 400 people have been
killed in Syria since the humanitarian mission began in late December.
