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Oct 29, 2011 11:28 AM CDT

Syria Protesters Want No-Fly Zone

Army continues deadly raids after bloody day yesterday

(Newser) - Syrian violence continued today, with government forces killing several people in raids in the city of Homs, reports Al Jazeera . It follows a brutal day yesterday, when security forces killed about 40 people after protests around the country, say opposition groups. Protesters renewed their call for a no-fly zone to...

Syrian Hospitals Torturing Protesters: Amnesty

Oct 25, 2011 10:46 AM CDT

Syrian Hospitals Torturing Protesters: Amnesty

Amnesty International says security forces running free in state-run facilities

(Newser) - Wounded Syrian protesters would be well-advised to avoid state-run hospitals—because security forces and medical staff are torturing people within them, Amnesty International alleges in a new report. “Syrian authorities seem to have given the security forces a free rein in hospitals,” one Amnesty researcher said, according to...

Kids Among 88 Tortured and Killed in Syrian Prisons

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Aug 31, 2011 10:00 AM CDT

Kids Among 88 Tortured and Killed in Syrian Prisons

Along with 78 others

(Newser) - At least 88 people have been tortured and killed in Syrian detention centers over the past five months, including 10 children, according to a new report from Amnesty International. Victims were burned, beaten, and electrocuted, among other abuses, the report alleges. “These deaths behind bars are reaching massive proportions,...

Syrians Defy Army,
Take to Streets

May 6, 2011 9:16 AM CDT

Syrians Defy Army, Take to Streets

Six die in clashes in Homs, Hama

(Newser) - Protesters took to the streets in Syria today, and were met with gunfire from the waiting military. A large number of troops had been deployed across the country in preparation for this “Day of Defiance,” the BBC reports. At least six have been killed, five in Homs—Syria’...

Syria Forces Fire on
City Square

UPDATED

Apr 19, 2011 4:27 AM CDT

Syria Forces Fire on City Square

Protesters vowed not to leave until government is brought down

(Newser) - Security forces opened fire with live ammunition and tear gas on hundreds of anti-government demonstrators in a major square in Homs today, killing at least one, witnesses said. "They shot at everything, there was smoke everywhere," an activist told the AP by phone. "I saw people on...