Political violence against women cannot be separated from political violence against the society since women are part of that society.

This is a sign to the EU and other countries that it's hopeless to form civil society here and promote change.

Abboud was released on bail on Monday, while the Syrian authorities set a date for the trial to be held in a military court. If convicted, he faces up to three years in prison.

I believe the reason he was arrested was because the authorities were surprised by the speed with which he reported on these issues. None of the other papers got there as quickly as Abboud did. Maybe the authorities were suspicious.

We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.

The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.