'A Gay Girl in Damascus' disappears
Channel: ScarceMedia
Date: 2011-06-07

note: photos used are of Jelena Lecic of London.

(BBC Radio) Sandra Bagaria, her girlfriend, recounts the story of her disappearance in Syria to the BBC's The World Tonight.
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A blogger whose frank and witty thoughts on Syria's uprising, politics and being a lesbian in the country shot her to prominence was last night seized by armed men in Damascus.

Amina Arraf, who blogged under the name Amina Abdallah, holds dual Syrian and American citizenship and is the author of the blog A Gay Girl in Damascus, which has drawn fans from Syria and across the world.

She was kidnapped last night as she and a friend were on their way to a meeting in Damascus. The kidnapping was reported on her blog by a cousin.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/07/syrian-blogger-amina-abdallah-kidnapped?INTCMP=SRCH