Photographer for the SANA agency abducted from his home

Samer Al-Shami, a photographer for the SANA agency, was abducted from his home in the western province of Homs at 5:30 a.m. by five gunmen who beat him with rifle butts, took him away in their car and interrogated him about his work and the supposed links of some of his relatives with the Moslem Brotherhood. He was released after several hours.