Protests on the rise in Damascus followed by mass arrests

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Syrian armed forces have arrested several people after demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime were held across Damascus, rights activists said on Monday. On Saturday, the military arrested at least 26 people in the Damascus neighborhood of Jawbar, many of whom were returning to their homes, said the Observatory.

“The army on Sunday arrested nine people in the district of Hajar al-Aswad and many others in Sahnaya,” a suburb south of Damascus, said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“Protesters demanding the fall of the regime marched on Sunday night in Hajar al-Aswad … in response to a campaign of arrests carried out earlier by the army in the capital,” he told Agence France Presse by telephone.

As part of the protests, “more than 300 lawyers gathered at the courthouse in Damascus calling for the release of arrested lawyers and prisoners of conscience,” he added.

Security forces have already carried out sweeping arrests in other parts of the capital, including Rokeneddine and Qaboun, after erecting barriers around the protest hotspots to isolate them.

The arrest campaign is part of a brutal crackdown launched in response to pro-democracy protests that broke out in mid-March, killing at least 1,483 civilians and 365 troops, according to rights groups.

At least 12,000 people have been arrested and thousands have fled to neighboring Turkey and Lebanon, rights groups say.

Naharnet, Now Lebanon

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9 responses to “Protests on the rise in Damascus followed by mass arrests”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Ran out of jail-space a while ago. Must have used up the football stadiums by now, So why not just put barriers around every city and call Syria a prison?
    Oh .. right … it already was.

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    Anonymous

    Ran out of jail-space a while ago. Must have used up the football stadiums by now, So why not just put barriers around every city and call Syria a prison?
    Oh .. right … it already was.

  3. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    he should have known by now that this will achieve nothing expect more protests and anger…. why is he so thick headed?

    el 3ama bi albou. how can he sleep at night? does he have a conscious? does he fear Allah? does he think he will live for ever? indeed not, his end is near and Allah will punish him for this..

    what is a man without a conscious? among other things, conscious is what seperates us from animals.

    even animals will show mercy towards other animals…thi sman is lower then the animals… he deserves to rot in Hell for all the suffering he and his family has brought about.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      I have a feeling his wife has no ‘say’ in the matter …..

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    Anonymous

    he should have known by now that this will achieve nothing expect more protests and anger…. why is he so thick headed?

    el 3ama bi albou. how can he sleep at night? does he have a conscious? does he fear Allah? does he think he will live for ever? indeed not, his end is near and Allah will punish him for this..

    what is a man without a conscious? among other things, conscious is what seperates us from animals.

    even animals will show mercy towards other animals…thi sman is lower then the animals… he deserves to rot in Hell for all the suffering he and his family has brought about.

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      Anonymous

      I have a feeling his wife has no ‘say’ in the matter …..

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      Anonymous

      I have a feeling his wife has no ‘say’ in the matter …..

  5. josephphdman Avatar
    josephphdman

    this is not the solution keep killing and killing and killing syrian people ,it will only make things worst and the people will want to revange for there dead ,and there will be more protestesters in the millions growing week after weeks ,  45 years of oppression has realy driven people to explode from pressure and they prefer to die  than turning back to live the way they used to,
    best solution for president assad to do 
    1- allow multiples politicles parties to open ofices and to run freely
    2- release all the political prisoneers that theey have kidnapped andimprison fro there own homes
    3- allow a peacefull demonstrations and gatherings
    4- prosecute all of his security forces who have killed unarmed civilians and bring justice to there families
    5 return the 200 billions dollars  the syrian oil money which is benn laundered and smuggeled out of syria by assad family and  deposited in  swiss bank account .
    finall withdrawback to the mountain and declare his own alawite state ,so he can save his people from prosecution by the new syrian democratic governement

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    Anonymous

    this is not the solution keep killing and killing and killing syrian people ,it will only make things worst and the people will want to revange for there dead ,and there will be more protestesters in the millions growing week after weeks ,  45 years of oppression has realy driven people to explode from pressure and they prefer to die  than turning back to live the way they used to,
    best solution for president assad to do 
    1- allow multiples politicles parties to open ofices and to run freely
    2- release all the political prisoneers that theey have kidnapped andimprison fro there own homes
    3- allow a peacefull demonstrations and gatherings
    4- prosecute all of his security forces who have killed unarmed civilians and bring justice to there families
    5 return the 200 billions dollars  the syrian oil money which is benn laundered and smuggeled out of syria by assad family and  deposited in  swiss bank account .
    finall withdrawback to the mountain and declare his own alawite state ,so he can save his people from prosecution by the new syrian democratic governement

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