Syria Liable in Killing of Journalist Marie Colvin, Court Rules – The New York Times

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Syria Ordered to Pay $302.5 Million to Family of Marie Colvin

A federal court in Washington ordered Syria to pay Marie Colvin’s family $302.5 million. The ruling could help ease the way for war-crimes prosecutions.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/31/world/middleeast/syria-marie-colvin-court-judgment.html

Issued by the United States District Court in Washington, the decision awarded $302.5 million to relatives of the journalist, Marie Colvin. Of that sum, $300 million is punitive damages for what Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in her ruling, called “Syria’s longstanding policy of violence” that aimed “to intimidate journalists” and “suppress dissent.”