(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian dissident woman and her daughter have been murdered in Turkey's Istanbul city on Thursday, activists and sister said.
The journalist and former member of the Syrian National Council, Orouba Barakat and her daughter Hala Barakat were murdered by unknown assailants in their house in Kadıköy neighbourhood in Istanbul,.
In a Facebook post, Orouba Barakat’s sister Shaza said they had been “assassinated” by the “hand of injustice and tyranny” -- a reference to Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The Syrian Revolution Network, an opposition media group, said Orouba Barakat had been a human rights activist who had opposed the regime of Hafez al-Assad and then that of his son Bashar since the 1980s.
The deaths are not the first tragedy to hit the family in recent years.
In February 2015, Deah Barakat, a cousin based in the U.S., was shot dead alongside with his wife and her sister in North Carolina.
Shaza Barakat’s son was killed by the regime in Syria.
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