Bassel al-Shahade
Year: 2012
Nationality: Syria
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Homs, Syria
Press organization: Freelance
What's Bassel al-Shahade's story?
Al-Shahade, a 28-year-old filmmaker and citizen journalist,and cameraman Ahmed al-Assam were filming incursions by security forces in theHoms neighborhood of Safsafa when a shell hit their car and killedthem, Amer Matar, an exiled Syrian journalist and a close friend of al-Shahade,told CPJ. News reports suggested that security forces targeted the journalistsbecause they were filming.
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