The journalist Shukri Ahmed Ratib Abu Burghul died today in a Damascus hospital from the gunshot wound to the head that he received on 30 December on arriving at his home in the Damascus suburb of Darya after hosting his weekly programme on Radio Damascus.

According to reports, gunmen deliberately shot Burghul in the face, beneath the eye. He was rushed to hospital immediately after the shooting. Reporters Without Borders condemns his murder and calls on the Arab League's observers to go to the scene of the shooting to conduct an investigation.

Born in 1956, Burghul began in 1980 to work for the government newspaper Al-Thawra, where he ended up being deputy director of its censorship department while hosting radio programmes on Radio Damascus.

Burghul's murder was preceded by the fatal shootings of photographer and video cameraman Ferzat Jarban in western city of Homs on 20 November, and[...]

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