Syria anti-IS documentary maker 'assassinated' in Turkey

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Source: AFP

Beirut (AFP) - A Syrian activist who produced documentaries hostile to the Islamic State group was assassinated in Turkey Sunday, according to the group with which he worked, "Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently".

"Film maker Naji Jerf, father of two children, was assassinated... today in Gaziantep", on the border with Syria, with a silencer-equipped pistol, the group said in a statement on Twitter.

RBSS is a group of citizen journalists who work to expose human rights abuses in Raqa, the northeastern city that IS uses as its de facto capital in Syria.

A friend of Jerf's said he had been "supposed to arrive in Paris this week after receiving, along with his family, a visa for asylum in France".

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1. saw this earlier on the Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently twitter page

very sad

other journalists affiliated with them have also been murdered recently

RBSS is doing a very good job of getting news and information out about life and conditions in and around Raqqa

https://twitter.com/Raqqa_SL

last month, they were honored with an International Press Freedom Award from CPJ (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://www.cpj.org/awards/2015/raqqa-is-being-slaughtered-silently-syria.php