Preserving evidence

This aerial picture shows Monday the villa of Maher al-Assad, the brother of the toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, in the town of Yafour near Damascus. Three rights group appealed to Syria’s new rulers to urgently preserve evidence of atrocities committed under former president Bashar al-Assad. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in Christian areas of Damascus early Tuesday to protest the burning of a Christmas tree near Hama in central Syria, AFP journalists witnessed.