The protests against the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria do not stop, despite the violent repression that yesterday killed more than 20 dead. Today, hundreds of people have burned the local headquarters of the ruling Baath ruling party and a police station in the village of Tafas, about 18 miles Deraa, where violent clashes yesterday.
The riots occurred during the funeral of Kamal Baradan, one protester dead yesterday. According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN, the death toll since the start of the demonstrations is 37, an amount less than that obtained by Amnesty International, which on Friday reported 55 fatalities during the last week.
Deraa has returned to focus today's protests against the Syrian regime. Security forces launched tear gas against hundreds of protesters who were conducting a sit in the center of this city, reports. Also today, in the city of Latakia portaria and according to a witness quoted by Al Jazeera, at least three people have died unknown and police fired on demonstrators.
Gunmen on rooftops of Latakia The political adviser of El Asad, Buthayna Chaabane, acknowledged to reporters that a group of armed men took the roofs of some buildings of Latakia and are carrying out "indiscriminate shooting of citizens." The state agency SANA reported that this group is attacking not only pedestrians but also to the security forces.
Moreover, the human rights activist Ammar Qarabi has denounced the killing of two demonstrators by security forces when trying to set fuegoa Baath headquarters in Latakia. Meanwhile, dozens of political prisoners have been released in the last hours, as reported by human rights activists.
Those released are 260, mostly Islamists, who were held in Saydnaya prison, near the capital, Damascus. "They are prisoners who have served three quarters of the sentence pairs and therefore can now be released, but authorities rarely grant this right of grace," the agency has secured an attorney who wants to remain anonymous.
Political prisoners, the street was quoted by EFE, the activist and former political prisoner Akram al Bunni reported this morning were released about 70 prisoners, most of them kurdosencarcelados in the same prison. He also noted that the authorities in Damascus are exploring the possibility of releasing another group of prisoners "very soon." Al Buni has not provided the identity of political activists released.
The measure was added to others adopted by the regime to stop the wave of protests that is repressed in the streets with extreme harshness. On Thursday, Chaabane, friendly face of the regime, appeared on television to promise reforms, measures against corruption, salary increase to civil servants and the possible repeal of emergency law.
The promises, however, have not placated the demonstrations and the violent repression of the Syrian security forces, especially in two cities in the south of the country, and Sanamein Deraa cited. What seems clear is that Syria does not give the conditions for a relatively short bloody revolution, as in Tunisia and Egypt.
The Army is directly controlled by the Assad family. If the protests culminated in a rebellion the most likely scenario would be that of a new Libya. That could deter the vast majority of the urban population to join the protest: they are tired of the regime but little interest in an internal war or the rise of the Islamists. 
The riots occurred during the funeral of Kamal Baradan, one protester dead yesterday. According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the UN, the death toll since the start of the demonstrations is 37, an amount less than that obtained by Amnesty International, which on Friday reported 55 fatalities during the last week.
Deraa has returned to focus today's protests against the Syrian regime. Security forces launched tear gas against hundreds of protesters who were conducting a sit in the center of this city, reports. Also today, in the city of Latakia portaria and according to a witness quoted by Al Jazeera, at least three people have died unknown and police fired on demonstrators.
Gunmen on rooftops of Latakia The political adviser of El Asad, Buthayna Chaabane, acknowledged to reporters that a group of armed men took the roofs of some buildings of Latakia and are carrying out "indiscriminate shooting of citizens." The state agency SANA reported that this group is attacking not only pedestrians but also to the security forces.
Moreover, the human rights activist Ammar Qarabi has denounced the killing of two demonstrators by security forces when trying to set fuegoa Baath headquarters in Latakia. Meanwhile, dozens of political prisoners have been released in the last hours, as reported by human rights activists.
Those released are 260, mostly Islamists, who were held in Saydnaya prison, near the capital, Damascus. "They are prisoners who have served three quarters of the sentence pairs and therefore can now be released, but authorities rarely grant this right of grace," the agency has secured an attorney who wants to remain anonymous.
Political prisoners, the street was quoted by EFE, the activist and former political prisoner Akram al Bunni reported this morning were released about 70 prisoners, most of them kurdosencarcelados in the same prison. He also noted that the authorities in Damascus are exploring the possibility of releasing another group of prisoners "very soon." Al Buni has not provided the identity of political activists released.
The measure was added to others adopted by the regime to stop the wave of protests that is repressed in the streets with extreme harshness. On Thursday, Chaabane, friendly face of the regime, appeared on television to promise reforms, measures against corruption, salary increase to civil servants and the possible repeal of emergency law.
The promises, however, have not placated the demonstrations and the violent repression of the Syrian security forces, especially in two cities in the south of the country, and Sanamein Deraa cited. What seems clear is that Syria does not give the conditions for a relatively short bloody revolution, as in Tunisia and Egypt.
The Army is directly controlled by the Assad family. If the protests culminated in a rebellion the most likely scenario would be that of a new Libya. That could deter the vast majority of the urban population to join the protest: they are tired of the regime but little interest in an internal war or the rise of the Islamists.
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