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AFP
Beirut
An award-winning Palestinian-Syrian photographer who documented life in the Yarmuk refugee camp in southern Damascus has died after nearly three years in regime detention, his partner said on Monday.
Niraz Saied, who himself hailed from the Palestinian camp, was arrested by security forces in October 2015.
His longtime partner, Lamis Alkhateeb, wrote on Facebook on Monday that Saied had died while in detention. He was believed to be 27 years old.
"There's nothing harder than writing these words, but Niraz doesn't die in silence,"wrote Alkhateeb, who lives in Germany.
"They killed my darling, my husband, my Niraz -- they killed you, my soul. Niraz died in the Syrian regime's prisons,"she wrote. It was not clear how Alkhateeb had learned of Saied's death, and she did not immediately respond to AFP's request for additional comment.
Their relationship had formed part of the 2014 film"Letters from Yarmuk,"which featured clips filmed by Saied of daily life in the battered, besieged camp. That same year, Saied won a photography competition run by the United Nations'Palestinian agency (UNRWA) with a snapshot titled"The Three Kings."
