Ghassan Saoud arrested

Ghassan Saoud, a Lebanese journalist who writes for Al-Akhbar (a Lebanese newspaper regarded as pro-Syrian), was arrested near the Omeyyades mosque in Damascus and was taken with a plastic bag over his head to a military police office where he was repeatedly kicked and insulted. He had written a series of articles about the pro-democracy uprising in which he interviewed members of the Syrian political opposition, young people and activists, and reported their views. He has been released