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• Syria crisis:
  Incendiary bomb victims ‘like the walking dead’, BBC One, Ten O’Clock
  News, 29 August 2013
• Syria: Agony of
  victims of ‘napalm-like’ school bombing, BBC One, Ten O’Clock News, 30 September
  2013
• Panorama:
  Saving Syria’s Children, BBC
  One, 30 September 2013

I wish to request under the Freedom of Information Act the following
documents relating to the September 2013 BBC One Panorama programme Saving
Syria’s Children (SSC) and related BBC News reports.

1. All internal BBC communications, documents
   and reports relating to the commissioning, planning and production of
   SSC.
2. All subsequent internal BBC communications,
   documents and reports pertaining to SSC and related BBC News reports.
3. All internal BBC communications, documents
   and reports pertaining to complaints
   made by myself and others about SSC and related BBC News reports.
4. All video footage shot by Mohammed
   Abdullatif [1] of the aftermath of the alleged incendiary attack on “The
   Iqraa Institute“, Urm Al-Kubra, Aleppo, Syria, on 26 August 2013, sections
   of which were broadcast in SSC and related BBC News reports.
5. All footage and still images shot by members
   of the SSC team (including reporter Ian Pannell, cameraman Darren Conway and
   BBC News security personnel) on 26 August 2013, retaining time codes.
6. All footage and still images shot by members
   of the SSC team (including reporter Ian Pannell, cameraman Darren Conway and
   BBC News security personnel) on a subsequent visit to “The Iqraa Institute”,
   Urm Al-Kubra, Aleppo, Syria on 28 August 2013, retaining time codes.
7. All correspondence between BBC personnel and
   the personnel, executives and trustees of the charity Hand in Hand for Syria during the planning
   and production of SSC and all subsequent related correspondence.
8. All correspondence between BBC personnel and
   Dr Saleyha Ahsan during the planning and
   production of SSC and all subsequent related correspondence.
9. All correspondence between BBC personnel and
   SSC fixer/translator Mughira
   Al Sharif during the planning and production of SSC and all subsequent
   related correspondence.
10. Recordings or transcripts of interviews with
    members of the SSC team conducted by the BBC Trust Unit’s Independent
    Editorial Adviser (IEA). [2]
11. A recording or transcript of the IEA’s
    interview with freelance journalist Paul Adrian Raymond. [3]
12. All other recordings or transcripts,
    correspondence, documents and reports pertaining to investigations and
    deliberations at Stages 1, 2 and 3 of the BBC complaints process in respect of
    complaints made by myself and others about SSC and related BBC News
    reports.
13. All correspondence between BBC personnel,
    including SSC fixer/translator Mughira Al Sharif, and the Diskapi Yildirim
    Beyazit Training and Research Hospital in Antakya, Turkey, relating to the SSC
    team’s attempts to secure permission to film inside the unit. [4]
14. All correspondence between the BBC’s
    Istanbul Producer and Turkish health officials relating to the SSC team’s
    attempts to secure permission to film inside the Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit
    Training and Research Hospital. [5]
15. All correspondence between BBC personnel and
    Human Rights Watch (HRW) in respect of the alleged incidents of 26 August
    2013, including the chain of correspondence between the BBC and HRW commencing
    on 29 August 2013 and any appended reports and the IEA’s correspondence with
    the Advocacy Director of HRW’s Arms Division. [6]
16. All correspondence between BBC personnel and
    UK and foreign state agencies relating to the planning and production of SSC
    and all subsequent related correspondence.

Yours faithfully

Robert Stuart

[1] Mr Abdullatif is identified as the cameraman by Ian Pannell at 3
minutes 25 seconds in this BBC World Service report https://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/another-horrific-attack-in-a

[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] https://bbcpanoramasavingsyriaschildren.wordpress.com/bbc-senior-editorial-complaints-advisers-decision-26-september-2014/