Abdul Rahman Abu Batra, Syria

Abdul Rahman Abu Batra was killed by Islamic State militants on December 5, 2014 in Lattakia, a city in northwest Syria, according to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). The Syrian Network for Human Rights reported that he was kidnapped nearly a year earlier.  Batra was a presenter and journalist at Syrian Al Shaab TV.

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