News Reporter beaten by bodyguard

Just over a week ago, female Al-Jadeed reporter Ghadi Francis was brutally beaten outside a hotel in Dhour Choueir, where an event for the Syrian Social Nationalist Party elections was being held. A day prior to the attack, she reportedly posed a question in a news report that sent a wave of intense criticism in her direction from the SSNP leadership. “Isn’t it time for the SSNP to have its own Arab Spring?” she asked. Francis told NNA that she was on the street, right in front of the hotel where the elections were held, and the bodyguard came out asking her to leave. The reporter insisted she was on a public street, not inside the hotel, which prompted a violent response from the SSNP member. “The bodyguard beat up Ghadi, punching her in the face and kicking her multiple times,” NNA reported.