A Syrian cartoonist is arrested in October 2012 and disappears into the security services of Bashar al Assad. Now there are reports that the cartoonist died in prison, the cause described as everything from torture to an untreated illness. But not everyone buys the story. A dialogue begins on Facebook and Twitter about whether the cartoonist is really dead. His family -- and many friends and colleagues -- says he's still alive though they haven't seen or heard from him since the cartoonist was detained. Who to believe? That's the morose challenge for relatives, friends and colleagues of those arrested in war-torn Syria.
Kamal Labwani spent the better parts of the past decade in a Syrian jail. We was freed last year, fled to Jordan and continue to agitate for the overthrow of the Syrian regime, led by Bashar al-Assad.
Kamal Labwani is a prominent longtime activist who was recently released from a Syrian jail. Labwani escaped to Jordan a few days ago and is working to bring down the Assad government.
The former attorney-general in Hama who disappeared last week has survived an attack.
Thousands of people protested across Syria on Friday after the bloody crackdown on Hama.
The United Nations Security Council condemned the crackdown, but is the international condemnation too slow? Joshua Landis, of the University of Oklahoma, talks about what comes next for the Syrian government and the challenges the opposition faces.
On Wednesday, tanks, armored vehicles, and snipers poured into the city of Hama, the symbolic center of the opposition for the last five months. Nada Bakri of The New York Times reports on the latest from Beirut, Lebanon.
More than 140 people have been killed in as the Syrian government attempts to crush the democratic uprising in the city of Hama.
The Syrian army is stepping up pressure on the city of Hama.