Assault on Aso News Network reporter while covering a sit-in in Qamishlo

Yesterday, Friday, Aso News Network reporter, in Qamishlo / al-Qamishli, was attacked by the so-called revolutionary youth (Jwanin şoreşger), while covering a sit-in for the people of the city.

Diana Muhammad, the correspondent of Aso News Network, said that she was doing her job covering a sit-in for the high prices and the reality of living in the area, when a group of masked young men attacked the sit-in and attacked the sit-in, in an attempt to break up the sit-in.

The reporter indicated that a member of the masked group intercepted her while she was doing her work, and forcibly took the camera and her mobile phone from her, smashed the camera, and insulted the reporter in full view of everyone.

The correspondent of the Aso News Network was with a group of journalists who were doing their duty to cover the event, according to media laws that provide a space for freedom of media work, linked to laws for journalistic work in North and East Syria.

The people had staged a sit-in, in various cities of al-Jazira, after a call launched by the Kurdish National Council, denouncing the state of high prices in the region, raising the prices of fuel and bread, and improving living conditions.

The director of the ASO News Network, Sardar Malla Darwish, said that the attacks on reporters in North and East Syria undermine journalistic efforts and press freedoms.

He pointed out that unleashing youth organizations that incite violence within the areas of control of the Autonomous Administration, and in contrast to media laws that release freedom of journalistic work, dedicates the opposite of the idea of ​​effort to develop media work.

The director of the network considered that the attack on the network’s correspondent is serious, describing it as targeting press workers, and that the attack exposes journalists to risks, including targeting and assault, and possibly being subjected to abuse.

Malla Darwish demanded that the Autonomous Administration to act its role, and based on media laws and the protection of journalists, open an investigation into the matter, and the need for the bodies responsible for media in the Autonomous Administration to follow up on the matter and investigate the incident that constituted psychological abuse and material damage to our correspondent, in addition to an attack on correspondents, and other institutions during the sit-in coverage, and this would increase the fears of press workers, as the silence on cases of attacks against journalists continued.