Syrian courts begin work on protesters
The people of Banias held up bread to symbolically nourish their brothers and sisters in Deraa in their latest protests on Wednesday. The flames of revolt are being crushed to cinders in Syria, with hundreds of the some 8,000 people arrested or disappeared since protests began charged with "maligning the prestige of the state", for which the penalty is three years in jail. ... http://www.euronews.net/