Media detainees

Syrian journalists lift placards protesting the detention of colleague Bakr al-Kassem a day earlier, and calling for his release along with other detained reporters, during a rally in Syria’s rebel-held northern city of Idlib on Tuesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders called for the immediate release of al-Kassem, who has worked for several media outlets including AFP in an area of the Syria’s north controlled by Turkey-backed rebel factions, and who has been detained by pro-Turkish factions.