CAIRO: French journalist Edith Bouvier, who was injured while reporting in Syria, was smuggled late Thursday out of the province of Homs, Syria and into Lebanese territory, activists in northern Lebanon told German press agency dpa. “She is now inside Lebanese territories and in a safe place,” Abu Imad, a Syrian activist said. She is the latest foreign journalist to be smuggled into bordering Lebanon in recent days, after a number of Western reporters injured in the violence in Syria have been taken by activists for medical treatment to the Lebanese capital, Beirut. It comes a more deaths have been reported among foreign journalists working in Syria, attempting to cover the ongoing violent crackdown of the now year-long protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. A leading activist in exile in Cairo told Bikyamasr.com that he hopes their story will be told to the world, “so they can see the horrors of Bashar's violence. “We have tried to tell the world, through videos and discussion of what is going on, but it hasn't done much, so maybe these journalists will help create a global effort to make our calls for change real.” The United Nations says that over 7,500 people have been killed in the violence that has seen the government's security forces shell, and use live ammunition against civilian populations since the uprising began March 15, 2011. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/Noz5X Tags: Beirut, featured, Homs, Journalists, Reporting Section: Latest News, Lebanon, Media, Syria
