honorable mention
AHMAD BARAKAT france
title
Yellow vests
They came out mainly because of the high cost of fuel, the high taxes and improving the living standards of the middle and lower classes then the demands Emmanuel Macron to resign
PHOTOJOURNALIST
Born on 08/03/1994 in Aleppo, married, I have two children.
Syrian photojournalist I covered the civil war before being forced to leave Syria and take refuge in France with my family.
I left Aleppo on 08/23/2016 after being arrested three times by the Syrian security forces. I spent about a year in detention between 2012 and 2013.
The first time in 2012, I was arrested after demonstrating for democracy, I was detained for 15 days, tortured, then released.
The second time in 2012, a month and a half, because of a demonstration there too, and I was able to go out paying a sum of money to an officer.
I was present in Aleppo during the first siege of the city and the situation was difficult for me. Before the end of the siege of Aleppo, I was injured in a bombardment and I received several shrapnel to the head and arms while I documented a bombing of 07/11/2016.
Then my house was hit by an explosive bombardment in a barrel of chlorine gas, a toxic gas that my child inhaled on 08/10/2016.
So I decided to leave Aleppo with my family and I went to Turkey illegally.
Now I am a political refugee in France since July 2017
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entry description
On 17th November 2018 the protesters flared up the first spark because of the high prices of the French peopleThey came out mainly because of the high cost of fuel, the high taxes and improving the living standards of the middle and lower classes then the demands Emmanuel Macron to resign
about the photographer
AHMAD Louai Barakat PHOTOJOURNALIST
Born on 08/03/1994 in Aleppo, married, I have two children.
Syrian photojournalist I covered the civil war before being forced to leave Syria and take refuge in France with my family.
I left Aleppo on 08/23/2016 after being arrested three times by the Syrian security forces. I spent about a year in detention between 2012 and 2013.
The first time in 2012, I was arrested after demonstrating for democracy, I was detained for 15 days, tortured, then released.
The second time in 2012, a month and a half, because of a demonstration there too, and I was able to go out paying a sum of money to an officer.
I was present in Aleppo during the first siege of the city and the situation was difficult for me. Before the end of the siege of Aleppo, I was injured in a bombardment and I received several shrapnel to the head and arms while I documented a bombing of 07/11/2016.
Then my house was hit by an explosive bombardment in a barrel of chlorine gas, a toxic gas that my child inhaled on 08/10/2016.
So I decided to leave Aleppo with my family and I went to Turkey illegally.
Now I am a political refugee in France since July 2017
back to gallery