Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the French judicial authorities to complete their war crimes investigation into the Syrian army’s shelling of a media centre in the city of Homs exactly ten years ago, in which French photographer Rémi Ochlik was killed, along with US reporter Marie Colvin, and a French reporter was injured. The French authorities have yet to bring any charges.
Human rights organisations yesterday announced that they presented additional evidence to the investigation and prosecutorial authorities in Germany, France and Sweden that the Syrian regime use.
The past decade has seen Syrian alternative media and journalists become the main source of information for what is happening in their country. They live-streamed their pain, their struggles and their experiences of the countless crimes committed against them to the world. And yet, more powerful forces have made this media landscape falter in recent years.
“She worked with the terrorists, and because she came illegally, she's been responsible of everything that befall on her [sic]” – this was Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sharp comment in an interview in English for NBC in 2016, when asked about Colvin’s death in the artillery bombardment on 22 February 2012.RSF registered as an interested civil party when, in March 2012, the