Friday, April 22, 2011

Syria protests continue against the number of victims AssadCresce anti-regime

Would be more than seventy victims of the fighting in Syria between police and protesters anti-Assad. This budget satellite broadcaster 'BBC', citing sources among the demonstrators. "We have the names of the martyrs. Their death is confirmed, "he writes on Twitter Malath Aumran, human rights activist.

Twenty-two known are also missing, as announced Ammar Qurabi, head of National Organization for Human Rights in Syria. This contrasts with the version that includes the official Syrian news agency Sana, in clashes that there would be only wounded and security forces have used water cannons and tear gas "to prevent clashes between protesters and citizens and to protect the public property.

" Immediately after Muslim prayers on Friday, as promised by opponents, resumed protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Tens of thousands of Syrians gathered in Salamiya, just outside of Hama. In the capital, officials tried to break up with tear gas thousands of demonstrators gathered in one of the squares of the city center.

A Baida, near Homs, according to the account of some witnesses, the crowd opened fire. It will also protest in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, north of the capital Damascus. Thousands of people have converged towards the central square, Salah ad-Din - in Italian, Saladin - while an unknown number of plainclothes police raided the mosque in the city Amina, beating the faithful gathered in the prayer room.

Dozens of protesters were then arrested at the Bab, a suburb of Aleppo. Parades also Qamshili, north east of the country, where more than 5 thousand people left from the square of the esplanade of the mosque and then into the streets of the city with Syrian flags and banners asking for some measures against corruption.

On the coast, finally, is the city of Banias to be the scene of demonstrations and clashes between protesters demanding freedom from the Assad regime and government security forces. It did not help then the gesture of detente sought by the president, who yesterday signed the lifting of the state of emergency in force in Syria since 1963, and some measures such as the abolition of special courts and a decree that includes the possibility of " demonstrate peacefully ".

Promises of progressive openings were also arriving from Assad, despite the start of the uprising, according to some humanitarian organizations in Syria would have died at least 240 people.

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