PARIS The Paris-based Society of Reporters Without Borders has requested Syrian President Bashar Al Assad on Wednesday to put an end to daily violations against freedom of the Press in Syria, on the threshold of the 56th International Day of Human Rights.
Dang, that made the Surprise Meter twitch. | The society, in a statement, said that economic openness and political modernisation in Syria will remain hollow without the existence of a free and independent Press in the country. It said that the methods of repression and intimidation used by Syrian security agencies since thirty years have transformed the Syrian media scene into a barren desert.
They said that the Syrian media was under the power of the 'Baath Party' and the government at the same time; and that if the government truly desired to rejoin the international community, it must by all means accept the emergence of an independent Press in the country. |