Mohamed Quratem

Year: 2012

Nationality: Syria

Killed by: Military Officials

Location: Darya, Syria

Press organization: Enab Baladi

What's Mohamed Quratem's story?

Quratem, a reporter for the pro-opposition weekly Enab Baladi (The Grapes of My Country),was killed in government shelling of the Damascus suburb of Darya on November28, according to his employer and thepan-Arab news channel Al-Arabiya. Quratem and two localactivists, Marwan Shurbaji and Abdal-Rahim Shurbaji, died when a mortar shell fell on the building inwhich he was working, Eiad Shurbaji,a relative of the killed activists and an exiled Syrian journalist, told CPJ.

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