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French judicial authorities issued an arrest warrant for former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
regarding the killing of French and Syrian journalists in Syria in 2012, according to Agence France-Presse.
This decision comes as part of ongoing investigations into crimes committed against journalists during the war in Syria.
The Syrian Center for Journalistic Freedoms stated that more than 400 journalists and media activists have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, and that at least 29 of them died under torture in the dungeons of the Syrian regime's prisons and detention centers.
In a report, the center accused the regime and its supporters—particularly Russia—of persecuting journalists and media professionals to obscure the truth.
The report indicated that 407 media activists have been killed under torture in Syria since 2011, and that the fate of others remains unknown.
The killings were distributed across several Syrian governorates, with the most prominent cases occurring in the Damascus countryside, where Adra Prison and Sednaya Prison, known as the "human slaughterhouse," are located.
