(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the radical islamist militant group, has decided to execute a Syrian citizen-journalist after one year in captivity, accusing him of contacting Hezbollah and Israel to attack Daesh and jihadists groups bastions in northern Syria, local activists and monitoring said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Tahrir Al-Sham had issued a death sentence against Amjad al-Maleh, who is descended from Madaya town near the capital.
The execution is expected to be carried out in the following 2 weeks, on charge of “giving coordinates of positions of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia and the Islamic State (Daesh) to Israel and the US-led International Coalition”, according to the Observatory.
Last June, al-Maleh’s colleague Hossam Mahmoud was released, but since then al-Maleh never find his way for freedom.
Tahrir al Sham arrested al-Maleh at the same time as Mahmoud, on 10 December 2017, as they were reporting near the northern city of Idlib.
The formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra is the dominant force in Idlib, has killed most of its opponents including citizen journalists and human rights advocates.
Tahrir al-Sham and other hardline groups have refused to pull out their fighters from Idlib despite the de-militarized zone which was announced by rebel backer Ankara and Moscow in September to separate regime troops from rebel fighters in Idlib and adjacent areas.
At least seven journalists and media workers have been killed by the Syrian regular army and its allies since the start of the year. Ranked 177th out of 180 countries in RSF's 2018 World Press Freedom Index, Syria continued to be the world’s most dangerous country for journalists last year.
Since the Syrian revolution erupted in 2011, more than 470,000 people have been killed, and more than 6 million people have been displaced.
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