{"id":766,"date":"2012-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Umar al-Ghabtawi, a videographer"},"content":{"rendered":"

To report situation on ground on Syrian lands, media activists are killed one after another, the story of Umar al-Ghabtawi, a videographer:<\/p>\n

Umar al-Ghantawi is 18 years old young man from the city Homs. At the beginning of the revolution, he left his work as a mobile phone technician and started his activities as a media activist for the Syrian revolution. He filmed and shot hundreds of videos and pictures that document the crimes perpetrated by Assad\u2019s regime on a daily basis hoping that they will appeal to world and humanity conscience.<\/p>\n

The freemen of Syria remember the young man who tore apart the photograph of the late dictator Hafiz al-Assad on the door of the retail association in Baba Amr. Assad\u2019s army troops targeted him back then, yet he miraculously survived.
\n He received a sniper gunshot to the back; it penetrated his back through his chest, near the heart. He was treated for three months. Then he returned to doing his previous activities. On Thursday 21\/06\/2012, while Umar was covering the shelling of Assad\u2019s regime forces on the neighbourhoods of Joubar and Sultanya, neighbouring to Baba Amr, he was killed with sniper fire; his camera, covered with his noble blood, fell.<\/p>\n

Some videos Umar filmed with his personal camera. His comrades and friends have all the videos and photos his shot<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uRN9Xeq5u70&feature=plcp<\/a><\/p>\n

These footages were shot in a makeshift hospital in Baba Amr, filmed by Umar al-Ghantawi
\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Okzr_g5mcR4&feature=plcp<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NP3So2n0RcA&feature=plcp<\/a>
\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/verify_age?next_url=\/watch%3Fv%3DETPaeN5ioME%26feature%3Dplcp<\/a><\/p>\n

Umar al-Ghantawi before his killing:
\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hLiVsDx2uLw&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n

Videographer of the city of Homs, Umar al-Ghantawi, photograph carrying his camera before his killing at the hands of Assad\u2019s regime security forces sniper
\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=318553144900834&set=a.253372941418855.58117.250521655037317&type=1&theater<\/a>
\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=318553144900834&set=a.253372941418855.58117.250521655037317&type=1&theatre<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Videographer of the city of Homs, Umar al-Ghantawi, photograph after his killing at the hands of Assad\u2019s regime security forces sniper
\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=318553291567486&set=a.253372941418855.58117.250521655037317&type=1&theater<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Syrian Network for Human Rights – London &
\nDamascus Center for Human Rights Studies – Syria<\/u><\/p>\n

SNHR:<\/p>\n

Website: www.syrianhr.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Email: press@syrianhr.org<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

DCHRS:<\/p>\n

Website: www.dchrs.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Email: info@dchrs.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To report situation on ground on Syrian lands, media activists are killed one after another, the story of Umar al-Ghabtawi, a videographer:<\/p>\n

Umar al-Ghantawi is 18 years old young man from the city Homs. At the beginning of the revolution, he left his work as a mobile phone technician and started his activities as a media activist for the Syrian revolution. He filmed and shot hundreds of videos and pictures that document the crimes perpetrated by Assad\u2019s regime on a daily basis hoping that they will appeal to world and humanity conscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}