Hunting Down Syria’s Media Activists
With only mobile phones and a slow internet connection, activists have succeeded in broadcasting the killing, torture and the shooting of demonstrators.
These journalists, professional or citizen, helped convey the voice of those gathered in the streets of Syria to the world. They later started using sophisticated Thuraya phones and satellite internet which the regime cannot track down, with a speed of more than 4 mega or 12 megabytes.
Overcoming the fear barrier
Media activist Jassem Abdelaziz from Homs says that starting out was difficult. “Everybody was afraid of being pursued, arrested or killed. Such was the fear barrier that affected us all. Back then, death was not what mattered but rather how to keep activists away from sniper fire and security incursions, because if an activist was lost it was very difficult to replace him with one who was still being trained.
“Security intelligence infiltrated during the first months of the revolution through our Skype programmes and Facebook pages and arrested a number of media activists. But this has changed a great deal as media activism developed, leading activists to use code names and messages and therefore prevent further infiltration.”
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