Archive for the 'Human Rights & Prisoners' Category

Eastern Ghouta x 20, by Aron Lund

Intervention in Syrien: Sollten wir eingestehen, dass der Krieg gegen das syrische Regime verloren ist? – By Nikolaos van Dam @nikolaosvandam

Kurdish Blockade of Sinjar Harms Yazidis: New HRW Report

Dealing with Syria’s Foreign Fighters: A Liberal Conundrum

A Day in The Life of The Jungle: Syrians Camped out in Calais

Remembering Dr. Hassan al-Araj

Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi Responds to al-Julani’s al-Jazeera Interview

“The evolving humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis,” by Marika Sosnowski

Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi Interviewed by Syria Comment

Analyzing the largest Syria crisis Facebook polls, by Camille Otrakji

The Arab Spring & the decay of secular state in Syria

Haithem al-Maleh, Landis, Fred Reed on Prism TV

An interview with Bassam Alkadi, President of the Syrian Women Observatory

Syrian Government Promises: Free Press, End of Emergency Rule, Opposition Parties, Justice

Demonstration in Damascus

Human Rights Watch “A Wasted Decade”

Is the Obama Peace Effort Over?

News Round Up (25 June 2010)

Assad Reaches Out to Business, Turkey, France and the US

“Syria: the prospects for political change” by Landis; Ilyas Maleh on his father

Radwan Ziadeh on “Syria’s Democratic Past: Lessons for the Future”

A Memoir-Novel of Tadmur Military Prison, reviewed by S. Taleghani

The Association Agreement; Authoritarianism; and Arab winds of change

News Round Up (18 October 2009)

Opposition News and Bashar Sba’i’s Return

Syrian Reformers Increasingly Agree that EU-Syrian Association Agreement Should be Signed

“Kilo Set Free,” by Khaled Oweis

News Round Up (April 1, 2009)

You lose ability, when you lose credibility, S. Farah

The Nuclear Mess – Where Does it Leave Syria?

12 Opposition Leaders Sentenced

How Syria’s Assad Is Steering His Country out of Isolation

News Round UP (1 Sept. 2008)

Assassination Speculation

Aref Dalileh released

Building Towards Peace

News Round-Up (August 1, 2008)

The Prisoner Swap Controversy

Prison Riot, Golan, Syria Heads East

Prisoner Swap; Golan; Negotiations

Turkey and Syria Discuss Nuclear Cooperation

Bashar Will Always Have Paris: Obama has AIPAC

News (4 June 2008)

Why Reform is an Urgent call to Secular Arabs:

News Round Up (12 March 2008)

‘Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East’ by Robin Wright

“Exuding confidence, Syria’s Assad targets opposition,” by Oweis

“Syria: The Opposition and its Troubled Relationship with Washington,” by Joe Macaron

Ali Barazi Released from Jail: Assad Says Seven Other Seculars to Go Free

Five undeniable facts about the Syria that I saw / by Ehsani

Most activists freed: Some Remain in Custody

Saudi king prays with Rif’at al-Asad in Mecca

“A dihonorable Affair,” by Katherine Zoepf

News Round Up (1 Sept 2007)

Censorship of Websites Announced by Syrian Ministry of Tel.

The Damascus Center for the study of Human Rights

News Round Up (19 May 2007)

Kamal Labwani Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison

Anwar al-Bunni Sentenced to 5 years in Prison

“The Story of My Arrest and Accusation” – by Michel Kilo

“President Bashar al-Asad Interviewed,” by Alix Van Buren

US Senators Defy Bush and Head for Damascus: Bush Says Asad Rules by Force

Aref Dalilah suffers stroke in jail. More prisoner releases