Revolution media professionals honored at Damascus Opera House

The (Violet) and (Action for Humanity) organizations, in coordination with the Ministry of Information, held a ceremony to honor distinguished media professionals and activists who played an influential role in conveying the facts and reality throughout the years of the revolution.

The ceremony, which was organized at the General Authority of the House of Culture and Arts (Opera House), included honoring more than 800 media professionals and activists, while reviewing the experiences of a number of journalistic cadres during media coverage, and the difficulties they faced in conveying the truth of the crimes of the defunct regime to public opinion.

Documentary materials were also presented on the crimes committed by the former regime, highlighting the role of media professionals in conveying the various stages that the Syrian revolution went through until liberation and the fall of the criminal regime. Also pictures of journalists who were martyred while performing their media duties were displayed.

The Director of Media Relations at the Ministry of Information, Ali al-Rifai, stressed in a speech during the ceremony that the free Syrian media was not only a transmitter of events, but was the conscience of the nation and its weapon in the face of tyranny, as it was involved in the front lines since the first day, and committed to conveying the truth, the free word, and the voice of the people despite various attempts at misleading public opinion.

He said “The revolution’s media journalists have taken on the responsibility of revealing the truth, so they monitored and documented the massacres, exposed war crimes, and conveyed the suffering of the Syrians to the global human conscience”.

He pointed out that the media cadres are at the heart of building the new Syria, as they presented martyrs and wounded in order to convey the truth of the revolution against tyranny and expose the crimes committed by the former regime in all governorates.

Al-Rifai stressed the ministry’s support for freedom of the press and media cadres in conveying the free word and standing by it, protecting it, and enhancing the role of the media in revealing the facts and confronting misleading campaigns.

Rawaa Ghanam