AFP: BEIRUT: Documents and torture equipment found in Syrian security buildings in rebel-held Raqa show detainees were tortured when President Bashar al-Assad's regime held sway over the city, Human Rights Watch said on Friday.

 

A team of researchers working for HRW toured Raqa in northern Syria in April, a month after the city fell into rebel hands, and found the incriminating evidence, the New York-based watchdog said in a statement.

 

BEIRUT: As lawmakers from rival coalitions struggled to reach common ground over a new electoral law Thursday, their strategists spent hours dissecting the laws proposed to determine which best suited their party lines. With most parties rejecting the 1960 law, they have spent the last few months mulling an electoral law that all parties would support. Due to their failure to reach consensus on alternative legisl...

By Cherine Chams El-Dine 

Student union elections in Egyptian universities have concluded in all governorates. This has created a 50-member national student union – a president and vice president from each of 22 public universities, two representatives from Al-Azhar University, and four representatives from private colleges and higher institutes – but one that still lacks a union president, vice president and executive bureau. Although the current student body...