He ran quickly and looked up after he was alerted by the Civil Defense warning via a "radio" device stating that the Syrian regime's helicopter had thrown an explosive barrel over the house that had been targeted less than half an hour ago, so journalist Abdul Razzaq Subaih moved, and those with him to a hole near the house and jumped to Inside, hoping to protect themselves from the barrel shrapnel that actually fell 20 meters from that hole.

And inside the village of Al-Rakaya in the southern countryside of Idlib, that was one of the threats that occurred during the journalist Abdul Razzaq Subaih's coverage of the events in Idlib Governorate, throughout the years of the Syrian revolution.

On the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, he told Al-Jazeera Net that journalism in Syria is not an easy thing, as the risks are varied and numerous, as they start from the bombing of the regime that targets areas where journalists are available for coverage, through the risk of arrest and kidnapping.

Monday 2 November marks the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.

Sobeih - who works as a reporter for a local Syrian TV - added that he had a number of his media colleagues killed while covering events in Idlib governorate, recalling with Al-Jazeera Net that he lost his two colleagues, one of whom was killed by the regime's bombing of Jericho, and the other was kidnapped in the same area.

Since the start of the revolution, the Syrian regime has sought to stop the journalistic work related to covering its violations (French)

Journalists stop

Since the start of the Syrian revolution, the Syrian regime has sought to stop the journalistic work related to covering its violations in the Syrian cities, and Tamer Turkmani, the activist and researcher in the field of documenting human rights violations, confirmed that the regime has worked to liquidate and arrest journalists since the beginning of 2011.

Turkmani said - during his speech to Al-Jazeera Net - that the Assad regime secretly recruited people in order to pursue and liquidate journalists so as not to convey the truth that is taking place in the country.

Turkmani spoke about journalists who had well-known incidents, as a result of which they lost their lives as part of direct targeting.

Among them are Naji Al-Jarf, who was assassinated, and Khaled Al-Issa, who lost his life when a direct device exploded targeting him and his colleague Hadi Al-Abdullah.

In his speech to Al-Jazeera Net, Turkmani indicated that he has documentary works devoted to Syrian journalists, in which he tells their stories and the violations they were subjected to, so that they are a reference to the courts and that "criminals" do not escape punishment, especially since multiple Syrian organizations are continuously filing lawsuits against the regime in European courts.

He also explained that the Syrian journalists have suffered greatly due to the many risks they have been exposed directly and deliberately to in recent years, and at this point, the journalist Abdul Razzaq Sobeih confirmed that he frequently and continuously changes his place of residence during the years of the revolution, for fear of targeting, arrest and kidnapping.

Photographer Khaled Al-Issa, who lost his life by detonating a bomb in Aleppo (communication sites)

Violations by the numbers

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, 707 journalists and citizen journalists have been killed in Syria since March 2011, 78% of whom were killed by the Syrian regime forces.

The network said that among them, 7 foreign journalists and 52 others were killed under torture.

It also indicated that more than 1500 journalists have been injured in various ways at the hands of the main conflict parties active in the country since 2011. The network also indicated that there are more than 400 journalists and citizen journalists, most of whom are detained by the Syrian regime.

Syria is considered one of the most dangerous countries for journalism in the world, according to the statement of the US State Department, on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, in which justice for violations related to journalists was not achieved.

Al-Jazeera network has had its share of violations against journalists in Syria, as it lost correspondents and photographers in Syria, including colleagues Muhammad Al-Salamah, Al-Jazeera news correspondent and Mehran Al-Dairi, Al-Jazeera Net correspondent, and the journalist collaborating with Al-Jazeera Mubasher Ibrahim Al-Omar, in addition to photographers Muhammad Al-Asfar and Zakaria Ibrahim .