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FEB. 28, 202012:49 PM
AMMAN, Jordan — The news broadcast finished and Salah Abed began to dismantle the equipment: There would be no other broadcast that evening — and maybe never again — from the Radio Fresh station in the Syrian town of Kafranbel.
The town had been an icon of uprising and the radio station was its voice to the world. Activists relied on the station, along with skits and videos that frequently went viral, to lampoon President Bashar Assad and the international community’s inability to stop the carnage of Syria’s civil war.
Additional story at Los Angeles Times: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-28/war-claims-a-revolutionary-radio-station-in-syria
Former 2016 feature, Inside the Syrian radio station that won’t stop recording
MARIE CLAIRE
APRIL 18, 2016 5:28 PM
https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/news/radio-alwan-syrian-radio-station-that-won-t-stop-recording-10817