Saturday, May 7, 2011

"Friday's challenge" in Syria: Repression in several deaths

Despite repeated calls by the international community to end violence that erupt around the country since mid-March, the Syrian regime still represses his opponents. Activists of human rights are state of almost twenty-six dead and several wounded, while thousands of opponents of President Bashar Al-Assad march across the country in "Friday the challenge," defying the prohibition laid down by the Ministry of Interior.

Tanks had taken up positions in various locations downtown and several suburbs. Security services, using loudspeakers placed on vans, called the people who participated in demonstrations to surrender to the police in their neighborhood, "lest they be arrested and punished." They are also the traders go home and the residents not to leave.

In the event Homs According to the Facebook page of Youth Freedom Syria, under intense fire were heard in the town at the roundabout from Cairo to Homs. According to an activist for human rights there, "dozens of people were arrested on the night of Thursday to Friday in several districts of the city." A Barzeh, protesters marched in memory of martyrs A Kamichli In Aleppo, Syria's second city, supporters of the regime have forcibly dispersed a sit-in students, according to activists.

The students, who were in the faculty of the city, demanding the release of their comrades arrested recently. The protesters, who originally demanded the lifting of emergency rule, the release of prisoners and end the rule of the Baath party, now calling the fall of the regime. Bashar Al-Assad had raised 21 April state of emergency in force for nearly fifty years, but the crackdown has continued, prompting international condemnation, but still no concrete sanctions.

Since the crackdown began in mid-March, nearly 600 people were killed across Syria, mostly in Deraa, according to NGOs. The number of persons "detained or missing could exceed 8,000," he added Tuesday Wissam Tarif, executive director of the advocacy organization Human Rights Insan. An eye on Syria, the blog of Ignatius Leverrier, a former diplomat, on The World.

en Facebook: the exiled Syrian dissident page Beirut Rami Nakhlé (English), that of Ammar Abdulhamid (English), who runs an NGO based in the United States, and those groups "The Syrian Days Of Rage" (English) "Syrian Free Press" (Arabic) and "The Syrian Revolution 2011" (Arabic).

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