Monday witnessed the discovery of a mass grave in Dera'a, Syria following the brutal clampdown which had been going on for two long months against pro-democracy protestors who called for

As the fists and boots and sticks pummelled his body and bloodied his face, the college student screamed out what he thought his interrogators wanted to hear: The name of

On 23 August 2010, on his way back to Germany from Syrian with his wife and three of his children, Ismail Abdi, a human rights defender of both Syrian and