Syria: 12 Year-Old Boy Beaten to Death

Syria - In Homs the victim a 12-year-old boy, Qassem Al Ahmad, beaten to death by plainclothes police during a raid in one of three areas (Bab Sibaa, Bab Amr and Tall Assur) by police and the army, backed by tanks. Yesterday evening the news came in that two protestors had been killed in Deir Al-Zor, in the north-eastern part of the country, by security forces. Entire residential areas of Homs,