Amr Badir al-Deen Junaid
Year: 2013
Nationality: Syria
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Damascus, Syria
Press organization: Qaboun Media Center
What's Amr Badir al-Deen Junaid's story?
Junaidwas head of the QabounMedia Center, a group of opposition citizen journalists who film clashes in the neighborhood of Qaboun and publish the unattributedvideos online, according to international broadcaster Al-Jazeera and the localpress freedom group Syrian Journalists Association. Junaid,who was known locally as “Abu Ameer,” was killed with Ghaith Abd al-Jawad,another journalist for the Qaboun Media Center, by a mortar shell fired bypro-Assad forces in Qaboun, according to Shaam News Network and other reports. TheQaboun Media Center posted a videoof a shell landing close to one of its other photographers, who was uninjured,on the same day. Qaboun and surrounding neighborhoods on the outskirts of Damascuswitnessed intense fighting that day. Therewere conflicting reports on the circumstances surrounding Junaid’s death. TheSyrian Journalists Association saidJunaid was hit while on his way to cover civilians in a makeshift hospitalinjured by shelling from pro-Assad forces. But Al-Jazeera saidJunaid was hit while filming shelling in the area. Neither source providedfurther details.
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