ADO-World.org 09-November-2011 WASHINGTON — Arab leaders are privately telling the United States that they have offered Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "safe haven" in a bid to convince him to step down, a top US diplomat told lawmakers on Wednesday. "Almost all the Arab leaders say the same thing: Assad’s rule …
Read More »US Probes Syria’s Use of Internet Blocking Equipment
ADO-World.org The US government is looking into claims that Syria restricted its citizens’ access to the internet, using an American company’s technology. A group of hackers says it has downloaded data from the Syrian government telecommunications agency. It says the records suggest equipment built by Blue Coat is being used …
Read More »U.N. failure made opponents desperate
ADO – press: The al-Fayhaa stadium in Damascus, the Assad stadium in Latakia, the main stadium in the city of city of Deraa were being used to hold thousands of prisoners, said Ziadeh. Ziadeh said that the U.N. Security Council’s failure to pass a resolution on the Syria crisis had …
Read More »Syrian activists : 30 000 arrested since March 2011
ADO – agencies: The Syrian government has detained more than 30,000 people since launching a deadly crackdown on opposition protests in March, a leading Syrian rights activist said Monday, as Washington condemned the Syrian army’s incursions into Lebanon and said that dissidents of the Damascus regime had either been killed …
Read More »Amnesty: patients tortured in Syrian hospitals
ADO – agencies: Patients in Syrian state hospitals are subjected to torture and mistreatment as part of the government’s crackdown on dissent, while medics are also being targeted, Amnesty International said, as a leading Syrian rights activist said that Damascus has detained more than 30,000 people since launching March. “The …
Read More »Dim prospects for Syrian dialogue
ADO – Press : An Arab League delegation tasked with restarting dialogue between President Bashar Assad’s government and the country’s diverse opposition to end the country’s eight-month crisis arrived in the capital Damascus Wednesday. But despite claims, the talks were “cordial and frank,” prospects for dialogue seemed dim, with the …
Read More »Middle East Church Leader Fears for Christians if Syria Chaos Results in Civil War
By Gina E. Ryder ADO-World.org Oct. 18 2011 A Middle East Church leader has expressed his concern for Christians and the potential adverse consequences that could result from increased pressure by the Syrian government, and especially if violence escalates into a fully blown civil war. The Syriac Catholic Church’s Patriarch …
Read More »The Syrian embassy in Beirut involved in spying on syrian opponents
ADO – Press : The Lebanese ISF police chief released to the media a detailed report that implicates the Syrian Embassy and its ISF personnel in the kidnappings of Syrian opposition figures, days after the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon demanded evidence be produced over the allegations. The report, released by Maj. …
Read More »Death toll on the rise across Syria as security troops fire on protesters
ADO – Agencies : As many as fourteen people were killed on Sunday as Syrian security forces pressed a crackdown on political dissent in separate hubs of protest against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, activists told Al Arabiya. They said that the highest death toll was reported in the city of …
Read More »U.N. urges action to prevent ‘full-blown’ civil war in Syria
ADO – Agencies: The United Nations top human rights official Navi Pillay called on Saturday for international action to prevent Syria’s “ruthless repression” of anti-government protesters from driving the country into “full-blown civil war.” Pillay also said in a statement that the death toll in the pro-democracy demonstrations that began …
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