In a security force crackdown thatbegan on May 14th and lasted less than one week, Amnesty states that the outcomes were “devastating” and the methods “brutal”. The report draws on accounts from some 50 witnesses and victims, who describe in interviews by phone and from neighbouring Lebanon harrowing scenes of torture, murder, looting, and violence [...]

Mr. Bin Hammam, a 62-year old Qatari national, was banned for from all involvement in soccer on Saturday by FIFA’s ethics committee for having bribed executives of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) to secure support for his campaign earlier this year for the FIFA presidency. Mr. Bin Hammam, who has denied all wrongdoing, withdrew his [...]

“Security agents encircled all the entrances to Hula and they started shooting to terrify local residents. Then the army went in to make raids and arrests,” said the Observatory. It said pro-regime militiamen and security agents were deployed on all roads and in villages around Hula to erase anti-government graffiti from the walls. The operation [...]

“His medicine was looted but he has new supplies now,” said Abdel Nasser, who came out to speak to journalists who had massed outside the family home in the Dimashq neighborhood. Journalists were not allowed to enter the house. Earlier, the CNN news network quoted Megrahi’s son Khaled as saying his father is “surviving on [...]

Syrian troops killed a teenage boy on Friday as protests broke out across the country, with protest groups urging international protection from a deadly government crackdown on dissent, activists said. “A 15-year-old boy was martyred when soldiers manning a checkpoint opened fire in the village of Al-Rama, in Jabal al-Zawiyah,” the Syrian Observatory for Human [...]