U.S. Court Orders Syria To Pay $300 Million For Killing Of Journalist Marie Colvin
The judge ruled that Colvin was killed by Syria and "targeted because of her profession, for the purpose of silencing those reporting on the growing opposition movement in the country."
A U.S. court has found the Syrian government liable in the 2012 death of American journalist Marie Colvin, ordering it to pay $300 million in punitive damages.
Colvin was reporting from in the western Syrian city of Homs when the makeshift media center where she was working came under artillery attack. French photographer Rémi Ochlik, 28, also was killed and other journalists and activists were wounded.
Colvin's sister Cathleen and Cathleen's three children filed the lawsuit
