President Assad said the protests are part of a foreign plot Syrian forces have arrested dozens of people after clashes with pro-democracy protests in several cities dead left at least seven people, activists say.The most arrests came in the southern town of Deraa, Damascus city and the State Duma, scene of the worst violence.
The Government said its security forces they were not responsible for the deaths, blamed on "armed groups".
Coverage of the protests is difficult to measure restrictions due to the media.
Some reports said clashes more than 15 people had died on Friday.
A resident told the associated press, that tensions in the Duma, with security forces patrol there the roads and to check documents.
The others said some was been detained dead, amid fears that further violence would trigger funerals.
A joint statement by eight groups of human rights, cited by news agency AFP, said 46 people have been arrested.
Late on Saturday, Duma called people for three days of general strikes in protest at the killings and arrests. All shops have closed already was.
The local authorities had promised on Sunday morning with their families passed corpses of those who died, and were their funerals to be held after noon prayers at the Grand Mosque, said people.
President Bashar al-Assad said earlier this week that the pro-democracy demonstrations part of a foreign "Plot were", but he agreed to check the unpopular emergency law which has been since 1963 in place.
Activists and human rights groups estimate that 60 to 130 people in clashes have died in the past two weeks. Officials have said that the death toll is closer to 30.
Says the BBC's Lina Sinjab in Damascus, released from prison protesters say that all those who were arrested during the protests were brutally beaten, humiliated and brands betrayers of the security forces, which it links with foreign forces accused.
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