The protest in Syria is not subsiding. In the aftermath of anti-regime demonstrations bloodily suppressed, today thousands of people have returned to the streets. A TAFAS, a small town near Dara, the city in the south of the country by fighting in recent days, was stormed and set fire to a building of the Baath party of President Bashar al-Assad, and a police station.
Hundreds of protesters gathered again today in the main square of Dara, the city epicenter of unprecedented protests in the south of the country, beating dislocate, lauding the "freedom". A fire the local headquarters of the Baath Party also Latakia, where the army has joined in the evening in a massive way.
Today in Latakia, which is the main port in the north-west of Damascus, the capital of the region belongs to the Alawite Assad clan in power for four decades, the Syrian police and unidentified persons opened fire at random against the residents . The dead, according to activists, there are seven.
To revive the protest was a call on Facebook to "popular uprising" in all the Syrian provinces. "Today, Saturday, the popular uprising in all Syrian governorates," is written in the text, which contains a popular expression used by insurgents Syrian Arab untranslatable who fought against the French mandate.
Syria, Yemen and Jordan are the new hot countries of the Arab world, after demonstrations and violent repression has already taken place in Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain. According to an official Syrian anti-regime demonstrations yesterday killed 13 people, including two firefighters and an employee killed by the protesters, while the budget of the organizations for the protection of human rights is at least 25 deaths.
The protests continued yesterday in Daraa, the epicenter of the insurgency, where dozens of people have died since March 18, and have spread to the capital Damascus and the cities of Sanamein, Daeel, Duma, Banias and Hama. Even more serious is the death toll since the protests began: Dara medical sources said the pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV that more than 150 people were killed in southern Syria in seven days of repression by the security forces.
After the bloody day yesterday, the authorities have freed over 200 political prisoners from jail to Sednaya, mostly Islamists. He said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in London, but the Syrian government does not confirm the news. "I know nothing about and I think the figures for this type of prisoners are exaggerated," said Buthayna Shaaban, an adviser to the President, interviewed by BBC TV channel in Arabic.
To appease the protests President Bashar al-Assad, in recent days, has also ordered a special commission to prepare a reform plan, including action against corruption, higher wages for civil servants, the distribution subsidies in the health sector and the creation of new jobs for young people.
On the events in Syria today spoke of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations, Navi Pillay, who has asked Damascus to "learn the lesson from recent events in the Middle East and North Africa, which demonstrated clearly how the violent repression peaceful demonstrations, not only does not solve the descent to the streets of the population, but risks creating a spiral of anger, violence, murder and chaos.
" In a statement, Pillay adds that "the Syrian people is no different from other peoples in the region. They want to have those basic human rights that were denied for a long time. " The High Representative for EU foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, has requested the termination "immediately" to the violence in Syria, saying he was "shocked" by the "brutal" government's response to the demonstrations in Damascus.
Ashton has also launched an appeal to the Syrian authorities are satisfied that "the legitimate aspirations of the people through dialogue and political reform and socio-economic." Strong concern over the escalation of violence was expressed by the foreign ministry, that "Italy is following closely, together with its European partners, the situation, condemning all forms of violence" and "the cessation of violent repression of demonstrations" el ' adoption by the government in Damascus of the announced reforms and expectations of the population.
Earlier this articoloRivolta in Syria, among the 30 dead in Yemen and Jordan manifestantiScontri 
Hundreds of protesters gathered again today in the main square of Dara, the city epicenter of unprecedented protests in the south of the country, beating dislocate, lauding the "freedom". A fire the local headquarters of the Baath Party also Latakia, where the army has joined in the evening in a massive way.
Today in Latakia, which is the main port in the north-west of Damascus, the capital of the region belongs to the Alawite Assad clan in power for four decades, the Syrian police and unidentified persons opened fire at random against the residents . The dead, according to activists, there are seven.
To revive the protest was a call on Facebook to "popular uprising" in all the Syrian provinces. "Today, Saturday, the popular uprising in all Syrian governorates," is written in the text, which contains a popular expression used by insurgents Syrian Arab untranslatable who fought against the French mandate.
Syria, Yemen and Jordan are the new hot countries of the Arab world, after demonstrations and violent repression has already taken place in Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Libya and Bahrain. According to an official Syrian anti-regime demonstrations yesterday killed 13 people, including two firefighters and an employee killed by the protesters, while the budget of the organizations for the protection of human rights is at least 25 deaths.
The protests continued yesterday in Daraa, the epicenter of the insurgency, where dozens of people have died since March 18, and have spread to the capital Damascus and the cities of Sanamein, Daeel, Duma, Banias and Hama. Even more serious is the death toll since the protests began: Dara medical sources said the pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV that more than 150 people were killed in southern Syria in seven days of repression by the security forces.
After the bloody day yesterday, the authorities have freed over 200 political prisoners from jail to Sednaya, mostly Islamists. He said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in London, but the Syrian government does not confirm the news. "I know nothing about and I think the figures for this type of prisoners are exaggerated," said Buthayna Shaaban, an adviser to the President, interviewed by BBC TV channel in Arabic.
To appease the protests President Bashar al-Assad, in recent days, has also ordered a special commission to prepare a reform plan, including action against corruption, higher wages for civil servants, the distribution subsidies in the health sector and the creation of new jobs for young people.
On the events in Syria today spoke of the High Commissioner for Human Rights United Nations, Navi Pillay, who has asked Damascus to "learn the lesson from recent events in the Middle East and North Africa, which demonstrated clearly how the violent repression peaceful demonstrations, not only does not solve the descent to the streets of the population, but risks creating a spiral of anger, violence, murder and chaos.
" In a statement, Pillay adds that "the Syrian people is no different from other peoples in the region. They want to have those basic human rights that were denied for a long time. " The High Representative for EU foreign policy, Catherine Ashton, has requested the termination "immediately" to the violence in Syria, saying he was "shocked" by the "brutal" government's response to the demonstrations in Damascus.
Ashton has also launched an appeal to the Syrian authorities are satisfied that "the legitimate aspirations of the people through dialogue and political reform and socio-economic." Strong concern over the escalation of violence was expressed by the foreign ministry, that "Italy is following closely, together with its European partners, the situation, condemning all forms of violence" and "the cessation of violent repression of demonstrations" el ' adoption by the government in Damascus of the announced reforms and expectations of the population.
Earlier this articoloRivolta in Syria, among the 30 dead in Yemen and Jordan manifestantiScontri
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