HHRR Group Decries Anti-Syria Media Campaign

Damascus, Jan 14. -The Syrian Human Rights Network deplored and termed distorting the media campaign against Syria that spread lies about the Arab country.Meanwhile, Governor of Homs province, Ghassan Abdel al-Al, said that, as requested by the wife of French journalist Giles Jacquier, killed in a terrorist attack on Wednesday, the body was handed over to her in the presence of the French ambassador here without having undergone autopsy.

Another eight local residents were killed and another 25 wounded in the attack, including Jacquier's assistant and two Belgian journalists, one of them remaining in serious condition.

Abdel al-Al said that Jacquier's wife, who accompanied him to Syria, was given his papers and the body was taken Thursday from al-Nahda hospital, in Ekrima, to the international airport to take a plane bound for Paris.

The governor said that Jacquier's wife decision of not submitting the body to autopsy was respected. However, the body was examined and photographed to gather evidence.

In its denunciation of media manipulation against Damascus, the Syrian Human Rights Network cited the example of Afad Mohammad Sarakibi, a baby said by Al-Jazeera and Al-arabiya channels to have died in prison while her mother was held. Afaf's mother appeared in Syrian television to deny those fabrications, saying that, fleeing terrorist violence, the baby and her grandmother moved from Telbeisah to Tartous, where the baby got seriously ill and admitted into a hospital, where she died.

Shadya, the mother, added that her husband's relatives requested that the baby was buried in Homs, and she was surprised to see footage of her daughter, naked and dead, released by Al-Jazeera.

The Syrian Human Rights Network denounced this event, describing as in violation of human rights principles and international law. (Prensa Latina)