The Lebanese Center for Human Rights (CLDH) is a local non-profit, non-partisan Lebanese human rights organization in Beirut that was established by the Franco-Lebanese Movement SOLIDA (Support for Lebanese Detained Arbitrarily) in 2006. SOLIDA has been active since 1996 in the struggle against arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and the impunity of those perpetrating gross human violations.

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February 22, 2012

Now Lebanon - SKeyes condemns killing of journalists in Syria, february 22, 2012


Samir Kassir Eyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom condemned on Wednesday the killing of two journalists in Syria, the National News Agency reported. 

The center called on the international community and human rights organizations to “act immediately and pressure international [parties] to put an end to the bloodbath [in Syria].”
It also called for trying those responsible for killing journalists and “innocent” civilians.
Syria has witnessed anti-regime protests since mid-March. The United Nations estimates that more than 6,000 people have been killed in the regime’s crackdown on dissent.
Veteran US war correspondent Marie Colvin of Britain's Sunday Times and freelance French photojournalist Remi Ochlik were killed Wednesday when a makeshift media center in Homs came under attack.

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