Monday, May 30, 2011

The Syrian army besieged towns new

Faced with an unprecedented protest movement, the regime of Bashar al-Assad intensifies every week repression against the Syrian people. The authority had sent the army in recent weeks in several cities, including Tall Kalach (150 km northwest of Damascus), Homs (center), Banias (northwest) and Dera (south), home of the revolt .

Sunday at dawn, "dozens of tanks have surrounded" and Talbisseh Rastan, "and the village of Teir Maaleh, situated between Homs and Hama, said an activist of Human Rights. According to another activist, five civilians were killed and several others wounded Sunday by fire from security forces in cities and Talbisseh Rastan, when the security forces and the Syrian army invaded the city.

According to the President of the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, Rami Abdel-Rahman, reached by telephone in London, an activist Deraa, Dr. Mohammad Al-Ammar Awad, was charged Sunday by the Justice for having " impair the prestige of the state and spread false information. " This doctor, who works at the hospital Jassem near Deraa, had recently met a senior military figure and had proposed an initiative for a democratic Syria.

But he was arrested shortly after April 29. The pro-democracy activists have also dedicated a Facebook page for a boy of 13 years "tortured and killed," according to them by security forces in Dera, who initiated the protest, calling for demonstrations in his memory. According to them, the boy had decided to take part in demonstrations after the death of his cousin killed by police.

He was arrested April 29 and his family had not heard from him until the surrender of his body on May 25 Activists have reported traces of torture on his body, claiming that he had broken his neck in particular. "We're all Hamzeh (...) We are going out to every house and every ward to express our anger," they write on the page dedicated to him.

According to the Washington Post, quoting unidentified U.S. officials, Iran is sending instructors and advisers in Syria to help the regime to quell the protests that threaten its main ally in the region. Friday, at least twelve people were killed during the dispersal of demonstrations by police, according to activists.

According to NGOs, over 1000 people were killed and some 10,000 arrested since the start of the protest movement on March 15.

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