Journalist Belal Belal tortured to death in Assad's prisons: activists

Zaman Alwasl mourns Syrian Journalist Belal Ahmed Belal who tortured to death in Bashar al-Assad's prisons after three years of detention.

On April 29, the Regime security told Belal's family that their son and father of two children had passed away.

Activists said that Belal had been killed on December 2013 due to torture. 

Before his detention, Belal worked as producer and director in Palestine Today, Palestinian satellite channel, as well he worked with Zaman Alwasl and many media outlets.

Belal was born in 1984 in Moadamiyat al-cham, Damascus suburbs.

On 2013, Syrian military court sentenced him 15 years imprisonment in Sednaya military prison over charges of supporting Syrian revolution.

Belal's last Facebook’ status was urging to maintain the peaceful revolution, activists said.

The Committee to Protect Journalists described Syria as the most dangerous place in the world for journalists. 

More than 30 journalists have been killed and dozens arrested or kidnapped in Syria since the uprising began three years ago, with no detailed statistics for Syrian journalists detained in Assad's prisons.

Syria's conflict, now in its fourth year, has killed more than 150,000 people, a third of them civilians, and caused millions to flee.