He loved digging and going through documents and making the mosaic of the information come into focus. He was a silent guy, but the type of man who wants to know how the world works. He was modest, he didn’t get into fights. Pavla Holcová, a Czech journalist who worked alongside Kuciak on his last investigation: “He was a village man in the best sense of that word. And Syria is the most dangerous place in the world to be a journalist.” When he died, our whole office was devastated. “Ibrahim was so quiet, but he had a great eye and developed himself over the years and became one of the best cameramen in the area. He moved house several times, but unfortunately he was killed in front of his house. “He’d had several threats from Isis and from the regime. It was one of the best stories he ever did. In 2018, Ibrahim followed up with one of these kids, now a man. Some of these kids were tortured and arrested. “One particularly great story he did was about the children living in Daraa who, at the start of the revolution, did some graffiti calling for Assad to go. He’d tell us how he’d do it and we’d help him to make it better.
When he did videos for us, he was the cameraman, the storyteller and the story editor. We don’t have the luxury to have people in front of the camera and behind the camera. Ghaith Hammour, the founder of Sy24 and al-Munjar’s editor: “Ibrahim was one of our stringers in the south. she didn’t even finish the first programme.” We don’t have many females on the ground, especially women who are very interested in covering issues related to women. “She was a soft-spoken, very modest person but with great potential as a journalist. He said she was very courageous and brave. Her father said she refused to get married because she wanted to keep supporting her family financially. She told her father she would be like a son, she would be the breadwinner. She was the main financial supporter of her family. “Maharram had been hired to work on a weekly programme focused on women’s rights and women’s issues. We were being professional, we were giving the facts, we were being balanced, but still, it was emotional because you lost a colleague that was in contact with you yesterday. I can’t explain the situation we were in. As they lost their lives one by one, the whole office was in shock.
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Malali Bashir, a journalist, TV and video producer for RFE/RL’s Afghan service and a colleague of Durrani: “The bomb was a deliberate attack on journalists.
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