This should be an interesting court case.
Syria regime sued over death of war correspondent Marie Colvin
PUBLISHED10/07/2016
Marie Colvin was killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs in 2012
The family of the renowned Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin have launched legal action against the Syrian government charging it with arranging her death in 2012.
The award-winning American journalist was killed in a rocket attack just hours after telling the world how Bashar al-Assad's army was "simply shelling a city of cold, starving civilians".
According to a lawsuit filed in Washington, figures at the "highest level" of the Assad government were part of a conspiracy to attack a makeshift media centre used at the time by reporters in the besieged city of Homs.
The papers link the dictator's brother to the plan, which was designed to "surveil, target, and ultimately kill civilian journalists in order to silence local and international media as part of its effort to crush political opposition".
In February 2012 Ms Colvin, 56, travelled to the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs with British photographer Paul Conroy and Syrian translator Wael al-Omar on an assignment for The Sunday Times.
There they met activists, civilian journalists and bloggers reporting on the atrocities that were being carried out by government forces on a daily basis.
Their use of social media to share videos and stories earned the Syrian uprising the "Youtube Revolution", and a secret nerve centre for the group was set up on the ground floor of a three-storey house.
The papers state: "Throughout February 2012, the Assad regime received tips from intelligence sources in Lebanon that Ms Colvin and other foreign journalists were travelling to Syria through Lebanon and reporting from the Baba Amr Media Centre.
"Acting on these tips, senior members of the Assad regime formed a plan to intercept the journalists' communications, track their movement to locate the media centre, and kill the journalists with artillery fire."
On February 21, Ms Colvin made audio broadcasts via satellite dish to CNN, BBC News, and Channel 4 from the media centre, telling audiences around the world: "The Syrian Army is simply shelling a city of cold, starving civilians."
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Syria regime sued over death of war correspondent Marie Colvin
PUBLISHED10/07/2016
Marie Colvin was killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs in 2012
The family of the renowned Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin have launched legal action against the Syrian government charging it with arranging her death in 2012.
The award-winning American journalist was killed in a rocket attack just hours after telling the world how Bashar al-Assad's army was "simply shelling a city of cold, starving civilians".
According to a lawsuit filed in Washington, figures at the "highest level" of the Assad government were part of a conspiracy to attack a makeshift media centre used at the time by reporters in the besieged city of Homs.
The papers link the dictator's brother to the plan, which was designed to "surveil, target, and ultimately kill civilian journalists in order to silence local and international media as part of its effort to crush political opposition".
In February 2012 Ms Colvin, 56, travelled to the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs with British photographer Paul Conroy and Syrian translator Wael al-Omar on an assignment for The Sunday Times.
There they met activists, civilian journalists and bloggers reporting on the atrocities that were being carried out by government forces on a daily basis.
Their use of social media to share videos and stories earned the Syrian uprising the "Youtube Revolution", and a secret nerve centre for the group was set up on the ground floor of a three-storey house.
The papers state: "Throughout February 2012, the Assad regime received tips from intelligence sources in Lebanon that Ms Colvin and other foreign journalists were travelling to Syria through Lebanon and reporting from the Baba Amr Media Centre.
"Acting on these tips, senior members of the Assad regime formed a plan to intercept the journalists' communications, track their movement to locate the media centre, and kill the journalists with artillery fire."
On February 21, Ms Colvin made audio broadcasts via satellite dish to CNN, BBC News, and Channel 4 from the media centre, telling audiences around the world: "The Syrian Army is simply shelling a city of cold, starving civilians."
Continue reading at:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...over-death-of-war-correspondent-marie-colvin-
