Ahmed al-Assam
Year: 2012
Nationality: Syria
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Homs, Syria
Press organization: Freelance
What's Ahmed al-Assam's story?
Al-Assam, a 21-year-old cameraman and citizen journalist,and filmmaker Bassel al-Shahade, were filming incursions by security forces inthe Homs 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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