{"id":98674,"date":"2018-07-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/7477\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T21:00:00","slug":"7477","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/7477","title":{"rendered":"UNESCO&#8217;s Director-General Urges Inquiry into Killing of Photojournalist Niraz Sa&#8217;id in Syria Dungeons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, called for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Niraz Sa&#8217;id, a photojournalist whose demise in detention in Syria was announced on 16 July.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI wish to express my condolences to the family of Niraz Sa&#8217;id,\u201dsaid the Director-General. \u201cI urge the authorities to conduct a transparent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the arrest of Niraz Sa&#8217;id, his long detention, and death in custody.\u201d\u009d<\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt is the duty of governments everywhere to respect due process of law\u201d\u009d, she continued. \u201cUNESCO is deeply committed to promoting the safety of journalists because freedom of speech is a fundamental right, essential for any society\u201d\u009d.<\/div>\n<div>The widow of Niraz Sa&#8217;id announced her husband&#8217;s death on 16 July, but information about the date or cause of his demise was not available.<\/div>\n<div>The casualty received several awards for his works of art documenting life in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp. One such reward was given to him by UNRWA during a photo contest. Sa&#8217;id&#8217;s timeless photograph capturing the anguish of children affected by the ongoing conflict in Syria won first prize in the European Union-supported 2014 UNRWA youth photography competition. Titled \u201d\u02dcThe Three Kings&#8217;, the image shows three brothers waiting their turn to leave the besieged refugee camp in order to receive medical treatment.<\/div>\n<div>Sa&#8217;id received several international awards for his film \u201cLetters from Yarmouk\u201d\u009d. His photos were put on display in two exhibitions in Occupied Jerusalem and Ramallah.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, called for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Niraz Sa&#8217;id, a photojournalist whose demise in detention in Syria was announced on 16 July. \u201cI wish to express my condolences to the family of Niraz Sa&#8217;id,\u201dsaid the Director-General. \u201cI urge the authorities to conduct a transparent investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-98674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}