Security forces in Syria have reportedly arrested Naji Tayara, a veteran human rights campaigner, in the city of Homs.
Ms Tayara has been an outspoken critic of a military incursion into residential neighbourhoods to crush an uprising against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
A former political prisoner, she played a key role in a movement demanding political freedoms, known as the 'Damascus Spring', that was crushed in 2001, a year after Mr Assad succeeded his late father as president.
