Marie Colvin family sues Syria for journalist’s murder
The family of Marie Colvin has filed a lawsuit in which it claims the journalist was targeted and killed by the Syrian government in an attempt to silence her reporting.
US-born Colvin, a correspondent for The Sunday Times, was killed in the city of Homs in 2012.
The Colvin family say in the wrongful-death lawsuit that Syrian officials deliberately launched a rocket attack on the makeshift broadcast studio, which they were able to target by tracing the satellite phone she was using.
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