Turkish-backed areas | Gunmen assassinate media activist in Al-Bab city, east of Aleppo

Aleppo Governorate – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored an assassination on a media activist working for a Turkish channel in al-Bab town in eastern Aleppo countryside.

According to Syrian Observatory sources, the media activist was assassinated by two gunmen on a motorcycle, after being targeted by machine guns, while preparing a video report on the coronavirus pandemic in northern cemetery of the city of Al-Bab, within the areas held by Turkish forces and the “Euphrates Shield” factions in eastern Aleppo countryside.

According to SOHR sources, the media activist was subjected to several death threats by people in the village of Tarhin in countryside of al-Bab city, and filed several complaints against them to the Turkish-backed civilian police in Jarabulus area in Aleppo countryside, before being assassinated today.