Ayham Mostafa Ghazzoul
Year: 2012
Nationality: Syria
Killed by: Political Group
Location: Damascus, Syria
Press organization: Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression
What's Ayham Mostafa Ghazzoul's story?
Ghazzoul, 26, a contributor and member of the Syrian Center forMedia and Freedom Expression (SCM), died in prison from injuries he sustained duringan attack on November 5 by students at Damascus University, according to SCM and a report bythe Dublin-based international human rights organization Frontline Defenders. Ghazzoul was in the Student Union on the campus of the universitywhen he was targeted in an attack by students loyal to Bashar al-Assad’sregime, according to SCM and Frontline Defenders. The journalist was known forreporting on abuses against journalists by al-Assad’s government and fordocumenting the killing and imprisonment of SCM journalists, according to Ghazzoul’suncle, Tawfik Halaaq, who spoke to SCM. The students beat Ghazzoul repeatedlyand then handed him over to security forces who imprisoned him. Security forces imprisoned Ghazzoul at the Air Force IntelligenceBase, a prison in the Damascus suburb of Mezze, where he died four days later,according to an SCM member who spoke to Ghazzoul’s cell mate in prison. Thejournalist never received treatment for his injuries.
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