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It happened on Sept. 24, 2016: at Heathrow Airport, British authorities confiscated the passport of Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim, one of the voices most critical of Bashar Al Assad’s regime, effectively preventing her from being able to travel to carry out her profession.
“Assad’s arm can also reach the UK,” Erhaim commented, “this is a dictator persecuting a journalist.
Prior to this episode, Zaina had traveled freely throughout Europe and in April had just come to the United Kingdom to collect the “Freedom of Expression Journalism Award” given to her for her work.
Until 2015, the journalist was still living in Aleppo. In his civil war-torn country, he helped train reporters and saw the birth of many publishing ventures.
He currently coordinates, from Turkey, a project of the“Institute for War and Peace Reporting” transnational organization that supports hundreds of reporters in conflict zones and in 2015 won the “Peter Mackler” journalism award.
Source:
The Guardian
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