By
Dana Khraiche
BEIRUT:
Syrian security forces have detained an As-Safir correspondent in Damascus,
sources close to the newspaper told The Daily Star Wednesday.
Syrian
Mohammad Dahnoun, who works for the daily’s youth supplement, was arrested by
security forces during an anti-government protest at the central Al-Midan
district Tuesday, sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said.
“He
was dragged to an unknown location,” one of the sources said.
Syrian
activists informed the pro-Syrian newspaper of Dahnoun's arrest and editors
have not been able to contact him since. The newspaper is trying to contact
Syrian authorities to find out more about their reporter.
Dahnoun,
a freelance correspondent based in Damascus and who has worked for As-Safir for
the last five years, was reporting on the unrest in Lebanon's neighbor that
erupted in mid-March.
However,
it is not known whether Dahnoun was on an assignment at the time of the
incident.
Few
journalists are able to enter Syria after the government prohibited reporters
from entering the troubled country to report on the protests against President
Bashar Assad.
The United Nations
estimated over 5,000 Syrians, mostly civilians, have been killed as a result of
a crackdown by Damascus to end protests calling for the departure of Assad.
Syrian authorities deny targeting civilians, blaming their deaths on “armed
gangs.”
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2011/Dec-21/157535-reporter-for-lebanese-daily-detained-in-syria.ashx#axzz1k6wYgero
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