High school blogger jailed as threat to Assad regime

The Assad regime has jailed a 19-year old female blogger and charged her with spying for the United States. Last December, Assad dispatched his much-feared mukhabarat agents to arrest Tal al-Mallouhi, a 19-year-old high school girl and blogger.Her parents were not allowed to visit her in her prison cell until last week and, of course, she still has not been permitted to see a lawyer.In Syria, as