Majid Dirani

Year: 2016

Nationality: Syria

Killed by: Military Officials

Location: Daraya, Syria

Press organization: Freelance

What's Majid Dirani's story?

Majid Dirani, a cofounder of the local Darayya Media Center, was killed on February 19 by a shell from a Syrian military tank while filming the shelling and aerial bombardment of his neighborhood, Daraya, a suburb of Damascus, his colleague and co-founder of the media center, Sultan al-Shami, told CPJ.

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