2011年4月1日星期五

New protests break out in Syria

1. April 2011 last updated at 14: 39 GMT Syrian army soldiers stand guard in Latakia. Photo: March 2011 emergency laws grant Syria's notorious security services wide ranging powers new anti-Government protests in various Syrian cities after Friday prayers, despite heavy security erupted.

Eye-witnesses reported that hundreds of people on the streets sing "Freedom!" The State news agency said demonstrators demanded reforms be speeded up.

Reports say security forces fire on protesters in Damascus suburb of the State Duma, opened with at least three people.

Had a day of the martyrs, of the dozens of people during two weeks of protests in honor synchronized activists Friday killed.

President Bashar al-Assad said earlier this week, that demonstrations part of a foreign "Plot were".

In a speech on Wednesday Mr Assad not announce the repeal of emergency legislation such as some analysts had predicted.

However, the President said later he had a Committee of law and to examine emergency - lift unpopular since 1963 led.

Support for Mr Assad was encouraged officially join regime also in evidence, with huge crowds shows of support for the regime in Damascus on Tuesday.

' Locked in'

On Friday, Deraa took demonstrators into the streets, Al Qamishli, Hassakeh and also Latakia, eyewitnesses said.

Allegedly, the demonstrators chanted "We want freedom!" and "The blood of the martyrs is not cheap!"

An eye-witness in Deraa told the BBC that the army used tear gas, had to disperse the crowds and several people injured had been.

Duma at least three people were killed when security forces say the fire on the demonstrators, opened reports. Also, a number of people were injured.

The towns of Qamishli and Hassakeh are in the North-East of Syria. The region is the Centre for the Kurdish population, which so far in the last two weeks of protests dispassionately, reports the BBC's Lina Sinjab in Damascus.

But in Qamishli and Hassakeh, demonstrators chanted "not Arabic, Kurdish, we want a national unity" in an attempt, all accusations of attempt, one Kurdish movement make to defeat, our correspondent says.

It adds that in Damascus a heavy security presence around the most important mosques is - began in particular the great mosque, where the first against the Government to protest.

Hundreds of security and pro-Government gangs to the mosque gathered and later with people pray in mixed.

The doors of the mosque were closed to prevent any protests, our correspondent says.

People are also reportedly locked in the al Rifa'i mosque in Damascus, where the prayers some chanting of "one who kills his people is to be a traitor" and "We are all Syrians".

"We fear, arrested, we want only freedom for those who are being held." You (the Government) security and bus waiting for us outside have "An admirer told the BBC."

Activists and rights groups estimate that 60 to 130 people in clashes have died in the past two weeks.

Government officials say the death toll is closer to 30.


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