Mr Conroy, from Totnes, suffered serious leg injuries in an attack that killed war correspondent Marie Colvin.

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An old friend and fellow traveller, veteran correspondent Marie Colvin, and young French photojournalist Remi Ochlik were dead.

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"Marie Colvin will always be in the hearts of each and every Syrian wherever they are, " wrote Reem Faraj.

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Also in Baba Amr was Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin who would be killed alongside French photographer Remi Ochlik just a few days later.

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The conference comes two days after two journalists - American Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik - died during shelling in Homs.

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Mr Hague also confirmed during questions on 28 February 2012 that injured British journalist Paul Conroy had been rescued from the Syrian city of Homs, where his colleague, the Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin, was killed earlier in the month.

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