Reporters Without Borders said his arrest was part of "Egypt's terrible revenge against journalists that cross the regime".
A statement by the country's powerful revolutionary committees promised a "sharp and violent" response to those who dared to cross the regime's "red lines".
For more than two-and-a-half years he was separated from them by just a few miles and unable to cross into regime-held territory.
Having risked carefully crossing the regime's red lines in the last years of Hafez al-Assad's reign, they continued to push the boundaries after his son Bashar inherited power in July 2000, willing themselves to believe that he would support a gradual transition to a more pluralistic political system.
We then provide (in Sect. 3) a provisional outline of the two changes to the border crossing regulatory regime that have been of considerable consequence for recorded cross-border day trips.
Residents of opposition-held areas are prevented from voting, unless they cross back to regime areas and register with the authorities.
The report, obtained by Foreign Policy magazine, found that, while those able to be reached had risen from 3.7 million to 4.1 million, the increase was caused by more people crossing to regime-controlled areas where the Syrian authorities allowed delivery.
A satisfactory correlation was obtained at relative strong cross flow conditions ("cross flow dominant" regime) that included the effects of the air speed of the cross flow, fuel jet velocity, nozzle diameter and pressure.
Although ferrite grain size increases with time and temperature of annealing, it ceases to cross the ultrafine regime (470 750 nm) due to the pinning effect of the carbides that restricts the migration of ferrite grain boundaries.
