protests, such as these in Baniyas, brought thousands on on the road safety has in Syria before that demonstrators will say the biggest rallies so far against President Bashar al-Assad Government been reinforced.Troops were reportedly deployed in the flashpoint city of Hims before the Friday prayers, which have become the catalyst for intensification of the protests.
In concessions to demonstrators on Thursday, President Assad officially ended five decades of State of emergency.
Human rights groups say that more than 200 people have died in weeks of protests.
A spokesman for Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Mr Assad "has to prove the possibility of its intentions by (Friday) protests without violent repression".
"The reforms only sense, when Syrian security services shoot, arrest and torture demonstrators, stop", said Joe Stork, HRW's Director Middle East.
The Syrian Government says it hears claims to demonstrators and President Assad is a program of reforms to implement. Thursday of the concessions abolition of State security courts and so peaceful protests
But analysts say more and more opposition activists are calling for the overthrow of the Government.
President Bashar al-Assad says that demonstrators was heard demands for reform have"State of emergency was, was not lifted," prominent Syrian activist Suhair Atassi wrote on her Twitter page.
"It is a victory because of demonstrations, protests and the blood of the martyrs, which called for Syria's freedom."
Uprisings against the authoritarian regime in Tunisia and Egypt inspired Syria's unprecedented wave of unrest.
However, Damascus has said a "armed uprising" of Salafist groups in Homs and further north in Baniyas takes place.
Salafism is a strict form of Sunni Islam which many Arab Governments equate with militant groups such as the al-Qaeda.
Demonstrations against Mr Assad's ruling Baath party began in the southern town of Deraa mid March and quickly spread to other places.
The unrest is the biggest threat to his rule, as his father Hafez al-Assad was 11 years ago.
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