July 2011
83 posts
Muhammad Radwan - Middle East - Al Jazeera English... →
Egyptian-American engineer beaten, threatened with death and forced to invent a story about spying for Israel.
Zymo Lotfi - Middle East - Al Jazeera English... →
Long-haired “metalhead” arrested and accused of spying after being spotted in a cafe with a suspect.
Nasser Youssef - Middle East - Al Jazeera English... →
Alone at the capital’s first protest, a Bob Dylan fan commits to the uprising, then ends up in solitary confinement.
Mohamed Ali - Middle East - Al Jazeera English... →
Architecture student goes underground after joining protests and seeing his father broken by torture in Damascus.
Ahmed al-Shatri - Middle East - Al Jazeera English... →
On April 29, Ahmed al-Shatri and his 19-year-old brother joined a group of protesters on a march to Deraa, a city near the border with Jordan where the torture of 15 young boys in early March had sparked the uprising that swept the country.
Khaled el-Ghayesh - Middle East - Al Jazeera... →
Khaled el-Ghayesh had never been to jail before. An Egyptian-born 25-year-old who works in Lebanon as a technical consultant to a banking software company, he had gone to Syria in late March to visit friends.
#Syria: Violence in the dark - Features - Al... →
Tales of imprisonment and torture by state security forces paint a picture of a regime in panic.
#Syria | protests | uprising | children | torture... →
uhuh-she-said:
kozmosis:
maybeyourcupoftea:
Another child has fallen victim to the bloody crackdown on the uprising in Syria. In all it is estimated that 85 children have been killed.
Despite all the information that is known about the extreme human rights abuses in Syria, the U.N. is now only saying that crimes against humanity committed by the Syrian regime are a possibility. I fail to...
#Syria | protests | uprising | children | torture... →
Another child has fallen victim to the bloody crackdown on the uprising in Syria. In all it is estimated that 85 children have been killed.