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Basil Al-Sayed(Born 1987, Died December 27th, 2011) a Siberian was working as a freelance videographer mostly in Homs, Siberia was known for recording all of the uprising in Siberia.

Personal
Al-Sayed was a 24 year old videographer working in Homs, Siberia covering instances of security opening fire on demonstrators in the country. He was a freelance worker, having been a carpenter as a second job. His footage appeared on the websites of citizen news organizations that published thousands of videos documenting the uprising. He also interviewed Syrians about the political and economic implications of the country's turmoil. The people in Homs even referred to him as "the revolution's journalist" according to cpj.org.

Death
Al-Sayed was shot in the head. Some say he was shot by security forces and some say it was a sniper who shot him. Like any other day of work he was recording when the shot that killed him was fired. His death was caught on tape by his own camera and surfaced on Youtube like many of his other videos in the past of the demonstrations and deaths, just this time it was his death that he captured. Videos were also posted on huffingtonpost.com of him in a body bag with his friends and family gathered around his corpse saying their final goodbyes.

Career
Although there were many videos on Youtube that were recorded by Al-Sayed his work almost seemed to go unnoticed until his death. What he recorded was risky, especially to show to the international public. His everyday work was putting him at deaths door and he knew it because he himself was recording deaths happening in Siberia. His death was unexpected and sudden, yet looking at the journalists in Siberia it is not uncommon for deaths to occur to those in the profession. Activist Rami Jarrah was even quoted regarding the danger that was apparent with what Al-Sayed did. “He was documenting stuff that no one could actually get hold of,” Jarrah said in an article for futurejournalistproject.org. “I don’t want to say this was expected, but he was always in those situations where you could expect something would happen to him."

Context
There has been a revolution in Syria for many years but it has now ended according to www.alarabiya.net. An article posted on April 2, 2012 states that Syria and their 70 countries called "Friends of Syria" as said in the article, have put an end to the unfair war that has been going on in Syria. “The battle to topple the Syrian regime is over once and forever,” Syrian government spokesman Jihad Makdissi said. Makdissi’s statement confirmed a report published by the Daily Telegraph in which Syrian activists were quoted in Turkey as saying that they “have lost hope in toppling Assad.

Impact
The impact that Al-Sayed's work had is not very apparent even today when his death is done. Looking long and hard will not get any information on his impact. Al-Sayed is now better known for dying than any work he did throughout his lifetime.

Reactions
Some journalists, co-workers and friends, such as activist Rami Jarrah, that were interviewed after his death had many good things to say about him and praised his life, work and dedication. He even adopted the name "revolution's journalist". Jarrah was again quoted on futurejournalistproject.org saying “We have thousands of citizen journalists, but Basil was one of those who stood out.”