Ali Al-Ibrahim

Jan 7, 2025 | gijn.org | Mohammed Bassiki |Ali Al-Ibrahim |Selma Mhaoud |Shaya Laughlin

SIRAJ — a GIJN member — is a collective of journalists who have been publishing stories exposing corruption and human rights abuses under the Assad regime since 2019. But the GID documents show that the agency had concocted a sinister theory about them. “The mentioned platform is merely a front for espionage activities, gathering information and connecting (with) sources to collect intelligence about Syria’s military and security institutions at various levels,” one document reads.