Omar additionally acknowledged that he desires to “cut back forms and facilitate the work of international press groups”
The knowledge minister of the brand new Syrian authorities, Mohammed al-Omar, advised AFP he was working for a “free” press, pledging to ensure “freedom of expression” in a rustic the place for many years the media was silenced by the earlier regime.
In a Syria wracked by greater than 13 years of devastating civil warfare, he additionally sought to reassure journalists who had labored beneath ousted President Bashar al-Assad however refused to change into “propaganda instruments”, promising that they’d be “referred to as to return to the their positions”.
“There was a robust restriction of freedoms of the press and expression in the course of the regime that utilized censorship. Within the subsequent section, we’re working to rebuild a free, goal {and professional} Syrian media subject,” Minister Mohammed al-Omar stated in an interview with AFP.
Omar is a part of the transitional authorities shaped in Damascus by a coalition of armed teams beneath the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which ousted President Bashar al-Assad on December 8, ending greater than half a century of rule. of his household clan.
Omar additionally acknowledged that he desires to “cut back forms and facilitate the work of international press groups”.
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