A prominent
Syrian journalist and filmmaker, who produced anti-Islamic State
documentaries was gunned down by unknown assailants in broad daylight
in Gaziantep, Turkey. This is the third assassination of a journalist
in the country over the last three months.
Naji Jerf,
editor-in-chief of the Hentah monthly, known for his documentaries
describing violence and abuses on Islamic State-controlled
territories (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) was shot and killed near a
building housing Syrian independent media outlets in the Turkish city
of Gaziantep. His death was originally reported by a group of citizen
journalists he was working with.
Jerf
recently completed a documentary investigating violence and crime in
the IS-held parts of Aleppo for the RBSS group ["Raqa is Being
Slaughtered Silently"]. The film won a Committee to Protect
Journalists’(CPJ) International Press Freedom Award in November.
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