Syrian spy agency targeted ICIJ’s Syrian media partner, documents show

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Syrian spy agency targeted ICIJ’s Syrian media partner, documents show

Syria’s feared intelligence services launched an investigation into ICIJ’s Syrian media partner, Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism, after it reported on Damascus’ business links with Europe, internal documents reveal. The documents, a cache of memos obtained from a state security office in Damascus after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, show how intelligence officers sought information about SIRAJ’s fund…

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Secret Syrian intelligence documents show that members of Bashar al-Assad's family spied on each other, including close surveillance of thousands of suspects, including schoolchildren.

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Assad's feared intelligence service launched an operation against journalists after revelations about exports from Sweden to the regime's military, according to documents found in abandoned offices in Damascus.

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Less than two months before the sudden collapse of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, the General Intelligence Directorate (DGI) continued its routine work, including espionage of journalists. Specifically, the department was targeting Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism (Siraj), according to documents discovered at the headquarters of the DGI after rebel groups took power last day 8. Siraj brings together a group of jou…