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Raed Fares

the sign of the Radio Fresh station

Syrian activist Raed Fares wanted ‘a free Syria for all Syrians.’ It may have cost him his life.

Justice

Raed Fares, a Syrian activist and journalist, was killed along with a colleague late last week. Fares was the founder of Radio Fresh, a news source for Syrians as well as a critic of the Assad government, as well as of the militants in the opposition. Friends and colleagues fear that that is what led to his shooting.

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