Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's regime had been detaining men and boys evacuated from the ravaged city of Homs.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said there was a risk that the evacuation could be the pretext for further attacks on Homs.
The authorities have been screening scores of men of weapons-bearing age who were detained after they were evacuated from besieged rebel-held areas.
"It is outrageous that the Syrian regime is holding and screening men and boys who have been evacuated," Hague said in a statement.
"We need answers urgently about what is happening to them. They should be released immediately.
Perhaps the feckless khakis have forgotten how they sent the children of London, Birmingham, and Manchester to temporary foster parents and relatives in the countryside to avoid the terrible air war of WWII.