...civilian medal of appreciation for his work in Lebanon." DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS The government maintained its pressure on the country's fragile human rights...prosecution of leading activists, and imprisonment. Some human rights activists reported to Human Rights Watch that they had been "invited" by the political...

...Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. PENCE, Mr. McCoTTER, Mr. TANCREDO, Mr. HERMAN, Mrs. Jo ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. BURTON of Indiana,...the security forces of Syria are targeting emerging Iniman rights organizations in Syria in an apparent attempt to intimidate those organizations into...