13 days from Syria is in the throes of an unprecedented anti-government protest. To try to stem the protest the Syrian authorities took two important decisions. First, repeal the emergency law in force in the country since 1963: "The decision to abolish the emergency laws has already been taken, but I do not know when it is implemented," said Buthayna Shaaban, an adviser to President Bashar al-Assad.
This legislation, which came into force immediately after the seizure of power by the Baath Party in March 1963, imposes restrictions on freedom of assembly and to move and allows the arrest of "suspects or persons who threaten security." These laws also make it possible to interrogate, monitor communications and make preliminary checks on what the newspapers publish and disseminate radio and other media.
Within a week, then, will be amended Article 8 of the Constitution, which effectively defines the Baath party only. Second, in the aim to appease the riots, Syrian authorities have released 16 activists, including Jawabra Diana, whose arrest helped trigger the riots. The pan-Arab Al Arabiya TV reports on the young woman's release, citing his lawyer, which states that all his client was released from prison 15 people, ended up in prison last March 16 during the sit-in convened in the heart of the Syrian capital to demand the release of political prisoners and 15 children of Dara, arrested in late February.
Jawabira Diana is a member of an influential clan of Dara and his arrest had helped to unleash the wrath of residents of the southern capital. Of the 37 people arrested March 16 in Damascus, they remain behind bars a dozen, including the activist Suhayr Atassi, leader of the campaign for the release of political prisoners, after six other Syrian activists were already released on Wednesday .
Government sources quoted by Al Arabiya more likely to report that "resignation" of the Syrian government on Tuesday 29 March and the possibility of "short" if they form a more "committed to serve the best interests of citizens." The current Syrian government is guidatodal premier Muhammmad to Utri, uncle of the first lady Assma al-Assad.
Formed in September 2003, the government has been restructured to Utri seven times over the past seven years. Since the rise of the Baath Party nearly half a century ago, the decisions of the executive have not focused on issues crucial to the fate of the country, relying instead on the presidency and the leadership of the same Baath.
The latest reshuffle was in October last year, with the appointment of two new executives of the Ministry of Culture and the irrigation. The composition of the executive had already changed in October 2004, in February 2006, in December 2007, in July and September 2008 and April 2009. From the strategic point of view, the Syrian regime has deployed troops in the city of Latakia, the scene of violent protests in recent days during which they have been torched offices of the Baath Party to power, and snipers fired from rooftops against the demonstrators.
According to government sources quoted by state media yesterday at the dead were 12 Latakia. The intervention of the soldiers who came aboard convoys of trucks, for the moment put an end to the demonstrations in this city 350 kilometers northeast of Damascus. But on the Internet for Syrian democracy activists call a general strike throughout Syria.
The call comes a day after the opposition denounced the death of seven protesters in Latakia, which would have been killed by snipers on rooftops. According to the opposition in the city are at least 20 deaths since the start of Friday's protest. The government denies that security forces have been shooting and spoke of "armed groups" that have attacked police stations and stolen weapons, forcing the police to react.
Thousands of demonstrators protested yesterday also Daraa, where according to Amnesty International in a week of protests have been 55 people killed by security forces. Bahrain. The main Shiite opposition party in Bahrain, Wefaq, has accepted a bid from Kuwait to mediate with the government and thus put an end to the political crisis gripping the tiny kingdom.
According to Reuters by Professor Jasim Husain, the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, has offered to mediate between the family of the Sunni al-Khalifa, in power in Bahrain and Shiite opposition groups. "We accept the idea of bringing an element from outside," said Husain Wefaq emphasizing that has no place in negotiating the conditions for mediation even if the presence of foreign troops will be a thorny issue in the discussions.
The party and the six other allied groups have said last week that they would put forward by Crown Prince entered into negotiations unless the government did not withdraw troops from the streets and freed the prisoners. Yemen. Setback to the negotiations for the transfer of power in Yemen.
The announcement was made one of the directors of the General Ali Mohsen stressing that at the time was not fixed the date for the resumption of talks soon. President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power since 1978, has not mentioned so far the main request of the majority party to form a new government charged with writing a new constitution.
"Members of the Central Committee of the Congress of the People stress the urgent need to form a government that has the task of drafting a new constitution based on parliamentary system" is written on the website of the Ministry of Defence of Sanaa. All the while to the south suspected members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to the armed forces have wrested control of Jaar in the southern province of Abyan, fundamentalist stronghold, according to a source of security services.
The United States. According to the U.S. defense secretary, Robert Gates, what is happening in the Middle East at the political level is an "extraordinary change" comparable only to the changes that followed the independence in the fifties or even the fall of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.
In an interview with American TV broadcasts in Sunday, Gates not only talking about operations in Libya was briefly focused on the situation in Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Bahrain. "We are so focused on each of these countries that has lost sight of the extraordinary history in the Middle East - said the secretary.
The same changes in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 have had a very rapid development, "but they have developed over nearly a year, from February to December," said Gates. For the Secretary of Defense, who was interviewed along with U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, what is happening in the Middle East is "an extraordinary challenge" to the United States and the rest of the world.
The entire international community is called upon to answer the same question: "What should I do?". As for a possible armed intervention in other countries in revolt over Libya, the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, broadcaster CBS said that "there is to be expected now that the U.S.
will be involved in Syria in the same way that I am in Libya. " 
This legislation, which came into force immediately after the seizure of power by the Baath Party in March 1963, imposes restrictions on freedom of assembly and to move and allows the arrest of "suspects or persons who threaten security." These laws also make it possible to interrogate, monitor communications and make preliminary checks on what the newspapers publish and disseminate radio and other media.
Within a week, then, will be amended Article 8 of the Constitution, which effectively defines the Baath party only. Second, in the aim to appease the riots, Syrian authorities have released 16 activists, including Jawabra Diana, whose arrest helped trigger the riots. The pan-Arab Al Arabiya TV reports on the young woman's release, citing his lawyer, which states that all his client was released from prison 15 people, ended up in prison last March 16 during the sit-in convened in the heart of the Syrian capital to demand the release of political prisoners and 15 children of Dara, arrested in late February.
Jawabira Diana is a member of an influential clan of Dara and his arrest had helped to unleash the wrath of residents of the southern capital. Of the 37 people arrested March 16 in Damascus, they remain behind bars a dozen, including the activist Suhayr Atassi, leader of the campaign for the release of political prisoners, after six other Syrian activists were already released on Wednesday .
Government sources quoted by Al Arabiya more likely to report that "resignation" of the Syrian government on Tuesday 29 March and the possibility of "short" if they form a more "committed to serve the best interests of citizens." The current Syrian government is guidatodal premier Muhammmad to Utri, uncle of the first lady Assma al-Assad.
Formed in September 2003, the government has been restructured to Utri seven times over the past seven years. Since the rise of the Baath Party nearly half a century ago, the decisions of the executive have not focused on issues crucial to the fate of the country, relying instead on the presidency and the leadership of the same Baath.
The latest reshuffle was in October last year, with the appointment of two new executives of the Ministry of Culture and the irrigation. The composition of the executive had already changed in October 2004, in February 2006, in December 2007, in July and September 2008 and April 2009. From the strategic point of view, the Syrian regime has deployed troops in the city of Latakia, the scene of violent protests in recent days during which they have been torched offices of the Baath Party to power, and snipers fired from rooftops against the demonstrators.
According to government sources quoted by state media yesterday at the dead were 12 Latakia. The intervention of the soldiers who came aboard convoys of trucks, for the moment put an end to the demonstrations in this city 350 kilometers northeast of Damascus. But on the Internet for Syrian democracy activists call a general strike throughout Syria.
The call comes a day after the opposition denounced the death of seven protesters in Latakia, which would have been killed by snipers on rooftops. According to the opposition in the city are at least 20 deaths since the start of Friday's protest. The government denies that security forces have been shooting and spoke of "armed groups" that have attacked police stations and stolen weapons, forcing the police to react.
Thousands of demonstrators protested yesterday also Daraa, where according to Amnesty International in a week of protests have been 55 people killed by security forces. Bahrain. The main Shiite opposition party in Bahrain, Wefaq, has accepted a bid from Kuwait to mediate with the government and thus put an end to the political crisis gripping the tiny kingdom.
According to Reuters by Professor Jasim Husain, the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, has offered to mediate between the family of the Sunni al-Khalifa, in power in Bahrain and Shiite opposition groups. "We accept the idea of bringing an element from outside," said Husain Wefaq emphasizing that has no place in negotiating the conditions for mediation even if the presence of foreign troops will be a thorny issue in the discussions.
The party and the six other allied groups have said last week that they would put forward by Crown Prince entered into negotiations unless the government did not withdraw troops from the streets and freed the prisoners. Yemen. Setback to the negotiations for the transfer of power in Yemen.
The announcement was made one of the directors of the General Ali Mohsen stressing that at the time was not fixed the date for the resumption of talks soon. President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power since 1978, has not mentioned so far the main request of the majority party to form a new government charged with writing a new constitution.
"Members of the Central Committee of the Congress of the People stress the urgent need to form a government that has the task of drafting a new constitution based on parliamentary system" is written on the website of the Ministry of Defence of Sanaa. All the while to the south suspected members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula to the armed forces have wrested control of Jaar in the southern province of Abyan, fundamentalist stronghold, according to a source of security services.
The United States. According to the U.S. defense secretary, Robert Gates, what is happening in the Middle East at the political level is an "extraordinary change" comparable only to the changes that followed the independence in the fifties or even the fall of the Ottoman Empire a century ago.
In an interview with American TV broadcasts in Sunday, Gates not only talking about operations in Libya was briefly focused on the situation in Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Bahrain. "We are so focused on each of these countries that has lost sight of the extraordinary history in the Middle East - said the secretary.
The same changes in Eastern Europe following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 have had a very rapid development, "but they have developed over nearly a year, from February to December," said Gates. For the Secretary of Defense, who was interviewed along with U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, what is happening in the Middle East is "an extraordinary challenge" to the United States and the rest of the world.
The entire international community is called upon to answer the same question: "What should I do?". As for a possible armed intervention in other countries in revolt over Libya, the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, broadcaster CBS said that "there is to be expected now that the U.S.
will be involved in Syria in the same way that I am in Libya. "
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