Officials arrested Omar al-Asaad, a Syrian journalist and activist, on Sunday evening (3 July) at a funeral for a fellow protester killed in Damascus. Asaad wrote for a number of Arabic newspapers, including Al-Hayat and Aljazeera. Earlier in the year, he exposed a famine affecting hundreds of thousands in north-east Syria, which the government had sought to minimise.
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Syrian journalist Omar al-Asaad arrested
Officials arrested Omar al-Asaad, a Syrian journalist and activist, on Sunday evening (3 July) at a funeral for a fellow protester killed in Damascus. Asaad wrote for a number of Arabic newspapers, including Al-Hayat and Aljazeera. Earlier in the year, he exposed a famine affecting hundreds of thousands in north-east Syria, which the government had sought to minimise.
05 Jul 11
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