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“… Lebanon for example, is a country riddled with armed factions. Nobody stops you at the airport and bars you entry just for being a journalist.
The new Syria should at least clear that bar, as it claims doing so.”
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When the Assad regime crumbled and I went to Syria for the first time, I immediately noticed some Uyghur fighters among the rebels. I wanted to know more.
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Thousands of Uyghurs became key fighters against Syria's Assad regime. For the first time, they agreed to be interviewed. NPR spent weeks with some of them to understand why they fled China for Syria.
Hussam Hammoud on limits on press freedom in Syria:
“In the new Syria, which proudly boasts its climbing rank in international press freedom indices, journalists are still treated as threats by the very authorities celebrating that rank…”
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“The Ministry of Information floods social media with tweets about journalists it has “assisted.” Meanwhile, the border crossing system bars any journalist from entering without prior accreditation, even if they’re traveling as a private visitor with zero intention of working…”
”’Better than Assad’ is the lowest bar in modern Syrian history,” Mazen Gharibah tells @theamargi.bsky.social. “It’s not a standard of governance.”
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