Assad’s war on journalists: inside Syria’s surveillance machine
Journalists in Syria during Bashar al-Assad’s regime were subjected to rarely-seen levels of surveillance. A new investigation from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism (SIRAJ) delves into the dictatorship’s tactics to track news professionals, from daily monitoring of publications and wire tapping, to deploying agents to influence media coverage and even compiling a “blacklist” of reporters.