Mohamed Bassiki

Dec 26, 2024 | occrp.org | Ali Ibrahim |Selma Mhaoud |Shaya Laughlin |Mohamed Bassiki

Less than two months before the sudden collapse of the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, it was business as usual at the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) — and that included spying on journalists. In particular, the intelligence agency was looking into Syrian Investigative Reporting for Accountability Journalism (SIRAJ), according to documents discovered at GID headquarters after rebel groups took power on December 8.