More than fifty people have died today in various parts of Syria for the actions of police and plainclothes agents to suppress political demonstrations, said the lawyer and human rights activist Haizam Maleh. "Demonstrations have spread to most cities and villages of Syria," said Efe telephone Maleh, a human rights activists in the country and who spent nine years in Syrian prisons.
According Maleh, the victims were killed by gunfire from security forces and "groups of thugs" who attacked the demonstrators. He added that the wounded are in the hundreds. The activist, 80, who was imprisoned in the eighties and more recently between 2006 and 2009, said the death toll was provided by reports in various areas of the country.
Among the areas where riots have occurred are the locations of the outskirts of Havana in Douma, Harasta, Tel and Maadamía and in the towns of Dera, Izra, Hama, Homs and Hauran. "The protests are increasing and the regime is incapable of finding a solution, so you should leave," said Maleh.
The protests came a day after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signed a decree to end the state of emergency in force since 1963. The repeal of the Emergency Law was one of the main demands of opposition groups that also claim political reforms in the system and the release of detainees.
Previously been reported that more than thirty people died during political demonstrations against the regime of Bashar al-Assad called for today, a figure provided by opposition activists in reports provided by the social network Facebook and residents and medical sources consulted by the Qatari television network Al Jazeera.
Damascus and other Syrian cities woke up today with heavy security for the protests called by the opposition to this Friday, a day after President Bashar al-Assad announced the end of the state of emergency. The Syrian capital today with police was deployed in many parts of the city, especially around the plaza Abasin, the main point of political protest in Damascus in recent weeks.
Five to six thousand people began to appear Friday in Qamishli, northeast Syria, and about 10 thousand in Deraa (south), despite the lifting of the state of emergency yesterday, witnesses said. 
According Maleh, the victims were killed by gunfire from security forces and "groups of thugs" who attacked the demonstrators. He added that the wounded are in the hundreds. The activist, 80, who was imprisoned in the eighties and more recently between 2006 and 2009, said the death toll was provided by reports in various areas of the country.
Among the areas where riots have occurred are the locations of the outskirts of Havana in Douma, Harasta, Tel and Maadamía and in the towns of Dera, Izra, Hama, Homs and Hauran. "The protests are increasing and the regime is incapable of finding a solution, so you should leave," said Maleh.
The protests came a day after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signed a decree to end the state of emergency in force since 1963. The repeal of the Emergency Law was one of the main demands of opposition groups that also claim political reforms in the system and the release of detainees.
Previously been reported that more than thirty people died during political demonstrations against the regime of Bashar al-Assad called for today, a figure provided by opposition activists in reports provided by the social network Facebook and residents and medical sources consulted by the Qatari television network Al Jazeera.
Damascus and other Syrian cities woke up today with heavy security for the protests called by the opposition to this Friday, a day after President Bashar al-Assad announced the end of the state of emergency. The Syrian capital today with police was deployed in many parts of the city, especially around the plaza Abasin, the main point of political protest in Damascus in recent weeks.
Five to six thousand people began to appear Friday in Qamishli, northeast Syria, and about 10 thousand in Deraa (south), despite the lifting of the state of emergency yesterday, witnesses said.
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