13 February 2012 Last updated at 15:44 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Navi Pillay: “I have encouraged the Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court” The failure of the UN security council to take action has emboldened Syria to make an “all out...
4 January 2012 Last updated at 12:58 ET Opposition activists in Syria have accused the government of deceiving Arab League monitors. Military vehicles have been replaced to make it look as though the army has left city centres as required by an Arab League peace plan, activists said. At least 12 people were killed...
1 January 2012 Last updated at 14:07 ET An advisory body to the Arab League has called for the organisation’s observers to be withdrawn from Syria because of the ongoing crackdown on protests. The speaker of the Arab Parliament said the monitors had to leave “considering the continued killing of innocent civilians by the...
30 December 2011 Last updated at 13:51 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Duma, a suburb of Damascus, has been a focal point in the latest demonstrations Syrian security forces have reportedly clashed with protesters, leaving at least 10 dead, as tens of thousands took to the streets across the...
29 December 2011 Last updated at 12:20 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC’s Allan Little: How impartial can these monitors be when some of their own governments are also cracking down on similar uprisings? Arab League monitors overseeing compliance with a peace plan for Syria have been visiting...
28 December 2011 Last updated at 13:23 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Human Rights Watch claims detainees have been moved to military sites Syrian state TV says the authorities have released 755 people detained during the nine-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The prisoners had been involved “in recent...
23 December 2011 Last updated at 15:28 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC’s Jim Muir: “State TV… are showing scenes of great devastation” At least 44 people have been killed and more than 150 injured in two suicide car bombings in the heart of Syria’s capital, Damascus, officials...
12 November 2011 Last updated at 12:38 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Protesters gathered at the funerals of three people killed in yesterday’s demonstrations The Arab League has voted to suspend Syria from its meetings and impose sanctions against Damascus over its failure to end a government crackdown on...
