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The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is carrying out the worst crackdown on political dissidents since 2000, when Assad came to...
Interviewee: Mona Yacoubian, USIP
Interviewer: Esther Pan, cfr.org
May 26, 2006
Mona Yacoubian of the United States Institute for Peace talks to cfr.org's Esther Pan about Syria's recent crackdown on democracy advocates.
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