Human Rights Watch volunteers enjoy a close relationship with the people they serve; yet direct contact is both a blessing and a curse, particularly when covering victims of violence.

Close to 100 protesters were killed in pro-democracy demonstrations throughout Syria on Friday where casualties have been reported in Homs, Latakia and Rastan, in Syria's latest 'day of rage'.

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

Freedoms committee at the Egyptpian journalists syndicate in cooperation with The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information and a group of Syrian and Egyptian activists will hold a solidarity meeting

RATHER than kicking troublesome figures out, some countries, especially in the Middle East, like to keep them in. In Syria travel bans have been routinely used to prevent people from

Tal is a high school student , born on 4/11/1991. On her blog she writes poetry for Palestine. She was arrested by SSI Damascus on 27/1/2009 for her activity on

Ribal al-Assad doesn't look like the son of a war criminal; fluent English, fluent French, fluent Arabic (of course), fluffy black hair and brown eyes, a youngish 35, Boston graduate,

Sources from the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that opposition activist Fedaa Horani was released after serving a 30 month jail sentence.

We know all about Guantanamo. We know about "black" prisons. You only have to read the evidence from the latest drum-head "trial" at Guantanamo – a man called Khadr.

SHRC calls for the immediate release of the two activists in Syrian prisons and interrogation centres.