About Massoud Hamid
Born 1953. Massoud Hamid is a Syrian journalist.
Massoud Hamid is a Syrian Kurdish journalism student. He took photographs of a pro-Kurdish event.
Biography Hamid received a three-year prison sentence. Hamid was held in solitary confinement in Adra Prison for one year from 2003–04 before he was allowed monthly visits, and Human Rights Watch said that interrogators reportedly tortured him and beat him with a studded whip on the bottom of his feet. His room was , largely filled by a toilet.
He received the 2005 cyberfreedom prize from Reporters Without Borders.
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Who is Massoud Hamid?
Syrian journalist
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Massoud Hamid was born in 1953.
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Massoud Hamid is a journalist.
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Massoud Hamid is Syrian.
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