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Were Russia And China Right to Veto Syria Resolution, Asks Policy Expert

The NPC's Press Freedom Committee hosts a panel to examine the latest Mideast trends on repression of expression on Tuesday, Feb. 14, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. in the Press Club's First Amendment room.

The 193-member Assembly will also discuss the report of the UN Human Rights Council from December last year. The Assembly has expressed strong condemnation on the abuses by Syrian authorities.

The mere possession of drugs and basic medical supplies such as gauze is now deemed a crime by the regime, and is punishable by incarceration, torture and death.

AJC is deeply concerned by reports that Iran is actively assisting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's war against his own people.

She highlighted that Ambassador Ford has left Damascus but he remains the United States Ambassador to Syria and its people.

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She noted that the violence has escalated to the point that the Arab League has had to suspend its monitoring mission. She added that the regime has failed to meet its commitments to the Arab League to halt its acts of violence,

The Quds Force team leader, Sajjad Amiran, said in the video that they acted under the direction of the Assad regime's own security forces, to kill civilian men, women and children in Homs.

The world has seen the horrific reports of women and children and their bodies on display as a consequence of government-sponsored violence.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned today the killing Mr. Jbeiro.

Russia is still refusing to condemn the war crimes committed by the Syrian regime. The Security Council seems impotent to act to stop the massacres perpetrated by Bashar Al Assad's thugs against the pro-democracy protesters.

The United Nations says more than 5,000 people have been killed in Syria's crackdown on protests which erupted against Assad in March, inspired by uprisings that toppled three Arab leaders last year.

The news of the deaths came just hours after Assad appeared at a rally in Damascus on Wednesday to show popular support and a government in control.

Mr. Feltman said the United States fully support that course of the Arab League. He said the Arab League monitors reported to the Arab League.

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Government officials and media said the unidentified bomber detonated an explosive belt next to buses carrying policemen in Midan, in the south of the capital of Damascus.