Raed Fares

Year: 2018

Nationality: Syria

Killed by: Political Group

Location: Kafranbel, Syria

Press organization: Radio Fresh

What's Raed Fares's story?

Unknown gunmen killed radio host Raed Fares, founder and director of the independent radio station Radio Fresh and the Kafranbel Media Center, and his colleague Hamoud al-Jnaid, a reporter and photographer for Radio Fresh, as the journalists were on their way to cover a protest in Kafranbel on November 23, 2018 according to news reports, the Syrian Journalists Association, the journalists’ employer, and the regional press freedom group Skeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom.

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