Sweeping Crackdown Continues in Syria - NYTimes.com
Others have said the arrests are often arbitrary, sometimes for little more than a tattered identity card, in a campaign that seems motivated to bully people to stay indoors and to restore a measure of fear that long girded the Assad family’s four decades of rule.
“The reaction of the authorities has excluded any possibility of having a rational solution,” said Rassem al-Atassi, the president of the Arab Association for Human Rights in Syria, in Homs, the country’s third largest-city and a center of the uprising.
Mr. Atassi himself was released last week after being detained for 10 days. “I only see this crisis becoming worse,” he said. “There’s no political solution.”
