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#SilencingDissent

This is a thread showing how those who told the truth about Syria were targeted and are still being targeted today

In June 2012 gunmen attacked pro-Syrian government TV station al-Ikhbariya. They killed 7 employees and kidnapped others.
bbc.com/news/world-mid…
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In Aug 2012 US/UK backed "rebels" kidnapped a al-Ikhbariya TV crew while they were filming near Damascus. "Rebels" later executed the driver. The rest of the crew were rescued by the Syrian Army one week later
1 theguardian.com/media/greensla…
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16 August 2012
Al-Akhbariya journalist Yarah Saleh and her crew are welcomed back after having being been rescued by the Syrian Army from the US/UK-backed "rebels" of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) who kidnapped them

#Syria
Journalist Yara Saleh talks to Thierry Meyssan about being held hostage by "rebels" of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in August 2012.
Yara Saleh: "They treated us so badly ... one of them wanted to rape me"
voltairenet.org/article175486.…
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Correction to previous tweet
"Rebels" executed the assistant cameraman Hatem Abu Yehya not the driver
voltairenet.org/article175446.…
On 26 Sept 2012 Syrian journalist Maya Naser, working for Press TV, was assassinated by a "rebel" sniper in Damascus and Syrian journalist
Hosein Mortada was injured

Their crime: They were reporting the truth about what was really happening in Syria
On 17 Sept 2012 Syrian journalist Maya Naser reported how the situation in Syria was getting worse for journalists because of the armed militants.
Naser was assassinated five days later by a "rebel" sniper.
8 July 2012
Maya Naser: "No matter how many Al Qaeda fighters are sent to my country, we'll continue enjoying our life and I'll keep holding my girlfriend’s hand in the streets.
I will not be anyone but this Syrian Man"
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syriapolitics.blogspot.com/2012/07/syria-…
On 27 May 2013 Syrian journalist Yara Abbas, working for Syria's Al Ikhbariya TV, was killed by a US-backed "rebel" sniper for reporting the truth about Syria
mideastshuffle.com/2013/05/31/yar…
Syrian journalist for Al-Ikhbariya TV, Yara Abbas' final report before she was killed by a "rebel" sniper on 27 May 2013
On 18 Oct 2014, American journalist Serena Shim, working for Press TV, reported that she had images of takfiri militants crossing into Syria from Turkey in NGO trucks and that Turkey's intelligence were looking for her.
She was killed the next day.
Before she was killed in October 2014, Serena Shim exposed how weapons were transferred from the US Incirlik air base in Turkey to militants in Syria

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Before she was killed in October 2014, Serena Shim also exposed how not all of the insurgents fighting in Syria were Syrian but were in fact mercenaries from various countries being sent into Syria via Turkey
In 2013 Serena Shim exposed how thousands of militants were trained in hidden "refugee" camps in Turkey
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