In northern Syria, near the border with Turkey, stands the town of Raqqa, considered the headquarters and capital of the Islamic State. The lack of journalists on the ground, both national and inter...
Abdalaziz Alhamza
Abdalaziz Alhamza is co-founder and spokesman of Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS). He currently lives in exile in Berlin.
On 25 November 2015 in New York he received on behalf of RBSS the Committee to Protect Journalist's International Press Freedom Award. He also received the 2015 Foreign Policy Global Thinkers Award - in the Chroniclers category - on behalf of RBSS.
For further information please see his November 2015 BBC interview with Anna Bressanin.