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2011年4月25日星期一

Witnesses say Security 5 killed in Syria RAID - voice of America

VOA News April 25, 2011 A man throws a rock at a passing tank in a location given as Deraa in this still image from an amateur video, April 25, 2011 a man throws a rock at a passing tank in a place given as Deraa in this still image of an amateur video, April 25, 2011

Witnesses in southern Syria say security forces have killed five people, as authorities to expand their crackdown on a five-week anti-Government uprising.

Monday said they saw the bodies in a car the witness, had attacked the security forces is ' A, after rolled tanks and soldiers in the city.

Permission groups reported also shot by security forces in the Duma, a suburb of the capital Damascus.

On Sunday, permission groups said security forces killed at least four civilians and city Jableh, protest against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad of last night arrested many activists of the opposition in the coastline after pro-democracy.? Witnesses say that the murders occurred even if no protests underway.

In the meantime, police raids in Syria Sunday, especially around Damascus and the central city of Homs conducted secret.? Arrests more than grieving funerals for protesters killed last during the two days.

Sweeps against the Government, the demonstrators despite last week lifting the country's nearly 50-year-old emergency law have escalated. The New York Times, quoting the Managing Director who said Syrian rights group Insan Wissam fare, 217 people have disappeared since Friday.

Funerals were held for the victims of the violence Friday and Saturday.? Human rights groups say that at least 120 people were killed in the two-day crackdown.

The US Human Rights Watch called Sunday for a UN investigation into the death and international sanctions to the officials for the murder charge.

President Assad signed a decree ending decades of State of emergency last week.? The ruling was part of his efforts against the Government stop unrest, by an important demand protesters.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.

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2011年4月24日星期日

90 killed, injured 80 in Syria disputes - Xinhua

(Beijing, April 23 Xinhuanet)-in Syria, where a human rights organization says that at least 90 civilians had been killed, security of the President Bashar al-Assad forces, during the largest demonstrations so far against the rule.

Another 80 people were injured in the clashes. Demonstrators seek the release of political prisoners and the dismantling of the security services.

It was the bloodiest day in a month the escalation of the demonstrations.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in cities Syria call on Friday, current President Bashar al-Assad step-down. Although he almost only emergency had lifted half-century old law, demonstrators were not reassured. It calls for more reforms and greater freedom in the West Asian country.

Syrian State television showed protests in several cities with news anchor stating the "peaceful" the protests. But an unnamed fireman in the capital city of Damascus said had attacked the fire stations by demonstrators. Seems hard to his fire truck was damaged.

Unidentified fireman, said: "Shooting is evidence calling for people not freedom." You call for damage to destroy the country. ":

Amateur video to a social website published was however another side of the story. In, demonstrators are seen from the sound of gunfire in the cities of Homs and Damascus run.

Neither account could be independently confirmed.

Friday's violence brings the death toll to about 300 since the unrest broke out in March in southern Syria.

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2011年4月21日星期四

Syria: States emergency - the guardian

Weeks demonstrations in Syria reached a turning point this week. In the third city in the country, Homs, Tahrir style was broken up by a sit-in when police in the amount raised. More than 20 pro-democracy, demonstrators were killed since Monday in the city. But the switch in many minds happen earlier. It was known that he almost half a century of the State of emergency would end up as President Bashar al-Assad was. As a bold, patronize it. It was a problem of communication, he said. There was a conspiracy (the demonstrations), there were reforms and there were "need of the citizens, not only economic ones". Was he sure that its citizens understand, but as could appreciate it, what was going on when the Government not to explain what happened?

President Assad audience understood all too well. By the regime of the Salafist intruders, Muslim Brotherhood bin Stooges, saboteurs of Lebanon Saad Hariri and Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar Sultan or of the Israeli secret service Mossad and the CIA agents supported is accused of the protesters as Syrians demanded to be heard. Chants for reform gave way to songs for regime change. "From the street, alley, from House to House, we want to rush you, Bashar", Sung mourning at a funeral. Since them, trying to rebuild at great cost, to a Syrian Tahrir square, have a physical epicenter of the revolt in a big city.

The Assad family (there are Bashar's brother Maher al-Assad, Commander of the presidential guard and his cousin Rami Makhlouf) now available to draw less political leverage, although there are many institutions of military ones. Ministry of the Interior instructions unheard. Protests continued overnight in Zabadani, based and Aleppo. A character that is inviting to join the urban Sunni population remained closed in Homs, the shops, is launched. You will be reduced not by sacking of the Governor in Homs or the head of security in Banias. What began with a brutal but routine, local incident, when police beat and tortured a group of graffiti artists in Deraa, has become a nationwide protest.

It's tempting to see regional opportunities in Syria turmoil under. This is not only the Arab League, a summit planned for may moved, paralyzing but also promote the Assad's opposition allies believe, Iran, which Hezbollah and Hamas, would be to lose with his departure. Some can be trying to identify, that foments dissent in Syria is worth a risk. This is folly in any part of the Middle East, but especially for a country with Syria's borders. No Arab spring has yet has been fuelled by foreign intervention. It could be killed by one.


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2011年4月20日星期三

Syria stepped up his crackdown while promising reform

The mixture of concession and forced came hours after an Egyptian-style were the police, army and other forces of an authoritarian State to crush one of the largest gatherings of demonstrators on a staging sit-in in third-largest city of Hims, Syria marshaled. At least two people died, demonstrators said the square from dawn, as the Government on Tuesday cleared.

The Monthlong, which rocked the arithmetic of a Middle East such as Egypt, which has potential to revise with dissent punctuated a turbulent day in a the events. During Egypt's population or even Libya Syria wealth missing, since its influence greatly in the region, given its location, its alliance with the Iran and its status as a Kingmaker in the Lebanon a long time.

The complexity of view means that the Government of President Bashar al-Assad in most proponents find different places - from the Shiite Muslim movement of Hezbollah in the Lebanon to some quarters in Israel.

The reforms have been promised Mr Assad, on Saturday should be articulated but until Tuesday, when the Government announced the lifting of an emergency law in place since the Baath party in 1963 came to power. The cancellation must be by the Parliament or Mr Assad, but this is a pure formality be approved. So has its actual effects: the Government has still to show real signs of loosening its relentless grip.

Since the uprising began, the Government has the compromise, a formula that proved to be disastrous for the strong men in Tunisia and Egypt varied between crackdown and proposals. But the combination was Tuesday most remarkable for how was it split.

Even as demonstrators killed in Homs buried, said civil liberties granted long promised reforms, curbed the power of the police and abolished draconian courts. Legalized "peaceful protests" - language for which the Government approved encoded - such as the Interior Ministry in a statement, carried by the official news agency, warned that it would bring to the full width of the law against any wear.

Based on Egypt and Tunisia, entered the reforms on paper original requirements, which are grown only depth and scope, as the bloodshed has deteriorated at least, far demonstrators.

"The road is in a world and the President and the regime are in another," said Wissam fare, executive Director of Insan, a Syrian human rights group, which was reached by telephone.

The announcements followed a further RAID the Government against the protests, this time in Homs, a city close to the Lebanese border and the location of the famous Crusader Castle.

For days, organizer in Syria wanted to replicate the experience of the Tahrir square in Cairo, where hundreds of thousands, gathered demand to the end of the reign of the three decade by President Hosni Mubarak. The place was a symbol and an instrument of the demonstrations, which eventually him forced to resign in February.

Organizers presented as its corresponding Abbassiyeen square, a major artery in the capital Damascus, but were thwarted by security forces. Some organizers said that she turned instead to Homs, is where funerals Monday for 14 demonstrators killed a day earlier thousands moved.

Some demonstrators said the security forces taken dumbfounded by the masses, seemed, by the day in numbers and anger grew. "A sit-in, a sit-in, falls to the Government!" screamed some. "Please go," prayed a banner of Mr Assad. Mr fare quoted witnesses, had served the demonstrators tea and sandwiches fell as a cool night and organizers said that mattresses and tents in busloads were so demonstrators in shifts could serve, said.

Security forces made several attempts to disperse the crowds, but relented until after midnight. Then, said demonstrators: a mix of soldiers, security forces and police officers surrounded the place and attacked the demonstrators with tear gas and live ammunition after the mass to about 2,000 had decreased.

Videos posted on Facebook and YouTube scenes of chaos showed dimly lit on a square yellow streetlights, as bursts of gunfire echoed. Mattresses and the canvas of the tents were the space scattered where a portrait of Mr Assad superimposed on a Syrian flag to read "Yes to the life, no to the dispute."

"Is this reform?" "Is reform that?"asked a demonstrator in one of the videos.

In another video, a demonstrator tried rally his countrymen.

"Come on back, guys!", he cried out. "Come back, all!"

Hwaida Saad contributed reporting from Beirut, Katherine Z?pf from New York, and employees of the New York Times of Damascus, Syria.


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The Syria Cabinet approves end of 48 years of emergency law

April 20, 2011, 3: 53 pm EDT by Massoud a. Derhally, Nayla Razzouk and Inal Ersan

(Updates with Assad Decree today in the fifth paragraph).

April 20 (Bloomberg)--the Syria Cabinet approved a draft decree to lift a 48 years emergency legislation, the principal demand of protesters challenging the rule of President Bashar al - Assad .the Council of Ministers has also approved bills to dissolve the Court Supreme State security and regulate the right to protestMinister of Information Adnan Mahmoud said yesterday in a speech televised after the session of the Council of Ministers. The measures require the approval of the President or the Parliament to become law, former legislator George Jabbour, said in a telephone interview. Assad will give its choirs today, reported the newspaper Al Watan. "This will strengthen security and protect the dignity of citizens, Mahmoud has. The draft law on the right of protest "is similar to those in place in most countries of the world, particularly in the countries of Europe and the United States."The Syria is the last country in the Middle East to be affected by the wave of revolts that ousted leaders of Egypt and Tunisia long and sparked an armed conflict in Libya. Plan Assad is an ally of the Iran and a power broker in neighbouring countries to the Lebanon, where it supports Hezbollah, a group armed with Shia Muslims.Assad will issue a decree approving the lifting of the emergency law, Al Watan, today official who is close to the regime, has reported, quoting an unidentified top. The Act be replaced by a special Act of the fight against terrorism and an existing General punishment law applies to crimes of terrorism, said the private newspaper. Assad will also issue a decree dissolving the Court Supreme Security of the State and the Organization of peaceful rallies, Al Watan said.Not enough "the number of deaths and injuries suffered by demonstrators at the hands of the month security forces has angered and galvanized the opposition to demand much more than the modest reforms that they wanted to start", some even calling for regime change "Chris Phillips, an analyst with the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, said yesterday." "Now, the official end of the emergency law is unlikely to meet the demonstrators unless it is accompanied by a significant change in the behaviour of the security services".Demonstrations erupted in mid-March, triggering a crackdown by the Government which led to dozens of deaths across the country. Assad ordered his ministers to prepare the legal framework for the demolition of the State of emergency, in a speech on April 16 without reference to other applications of protest, including the release of political prisoners.Demonstrators KilledAt at least 17 demonstrators died on April 17 in the central city of Homs anti-government gatherings, is home to one of two oil refineries in the country and Latakia, Ammar Qurabi, head of the national organization for human rights Syriasaid by telephone from Cairo. He said the security forces is separated a sit-in Homs yesterday, causing at least one death. Agency France-Press put the number of deaths yesterday in Homs to four.The Interior Ministry has accused "criminal gangs" of having killed a general and three of his parents, as well as a colonel and a soldier, in two separate attacks in Homs, in accordance with the Arab Syrian State News Agency.Assad must do more to meet the demands of the Syrian people for greater freedom and the démocratieSecrétaire foreign U.K. William Hague said after the Syrian Cabinet has approved the draft decree on the lifting of the emergency law.The move "is a step forward, there is no doubt that," Hague told Sky News television yesterday. "assad" has much more to be done to meet the legitimate aspirations of the people of his country. "Of the Baathist regime of terrorists BlamedAssad, who has been in power since 1963, has blamed the violence on the terrorists. The Ministry of the Interior announced yesterday a ban on street demonstrations. "The Department said it will not be lenient with such terrorist acts and work strictly to improve the security and stability everywhere in Syria and pursue terrorists everywhere in the world to bring to justice,"according to SANA." "Banning the demonstrations is unconstitutional, former judge Haitham al-Maleh, 80, an activist of the human rights which has been recently released from prison under an amnesty, said television Al Arabiya. "No laws or decrees have so far been enacted, so it is all the talk for the moment."The Cabinet yesterday investigated a series of decrees of project to introduce more changes, including a new right of the media to respect freedoms, said Mahmoud. The Cabinet also reviewed in the projects of laws for political parties and local authorities, said SANA.Dissatisfied with "decrees of strategic project arrived in the political reform that will help to build democracy and to increase the participation of citizens," said SANA. The Government has reviewed a draft law which would employ 10,000 graduates in public institutions, each year, he said.Government concessions do not appear to meet the demonstrators, who were always "want a little more," Theodore Karasik, Director of research at the Institute based in Dubai for the Middle East and the military analysis of the Gulf, said yesterday by phone.At least 130 people were killed in the unrest, according to Human Rights Watch. The organization based in New York, said Syrian forces have tortured the demonstrators and that it is impossible to verify how many remain in detention. Activists say the number of deaths exceed births that unrest has posed the most serious challenge to Asad, who inherited power from his father 11 years. He accused the conspirators from abroad to take advantage of the unrest to undermine the Syria, mainly because of his anti-Israel groups support.Assad issued a decree on 14 April to approve a new Government under the former Agriculture Minister Adel Safar, after protests intensified.

-With the help of Lina Ibrahim in Dubai and Thomas Penny in London. Editors: Jennifer M. Freedman, Heather Langan

To contact the reporters on this story: Massoud a. Derhally to Beirut to mderhally@bloomberg.net; Nayla Razzouk in Amman at the nrazzouk2@bloomberg.net. Inal Ersan in Dubai at the iersan@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew j. Barden at barden@bloomberg.net


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2011年4月2日星期六

Syria hunting for sniper

Druze Syrians in the Golan Heights march Saturday in support of President Bashar al-Assad.Druze Syrians in the Golan Heights, March Saturday in support of President Bashar al-Assad.Syria in search of members of the "armed group'at at least 11 killed on FridayAround 20 arrests in is ' A and Homs"

Pulsating(dpa) - system.UInt64 governmental xenophobic demonstrations of Syria hunt for sniper and a wave of arrests led to a safety Saturday.

Syrian security forces are on the lookout for members of an "armed group", the "a number of citizens and security forces" in the District of Damascus Duma on Friday, killed the Syrian Arab News Agency reported on Saturday.

SANA quoted an unidentified official source as he said, that snipers from the Group on civilians fired from rooftops, and security forces. This is disputed by activists and eye-witnesses, who told CNN that Government snipers fired shot on unarmed protestors and Government forces beat demonstrators.

"Security forces of the members of the armed group track, who terrorized the citizens at random by dismissal,", SANA, citing the source, the identification of that particular group is not reported.

The Syrian Observatory for human rights said in the volatile southern city is ' A and Homs arrested about 20 people security forces, which had demonstrated the previous day on Saturday.

Protests on Friday swept through Syria, to endure one of the latest Arab countries of grassroots dissatisfaction.

At least 10 people, nine of them in the Duma, have been killed on Friday, after human rights activists. Another person died in Al Sanameen in the vicinity of is ' A. SANA reported that a girl was killed when the armed group opened fire on civilians in the city of Hims.

Along with the protests in Duma, is ' A, Homs and Al Sanameen took people on the street in Latakia, Baniyas and Kamishli on Friday, CNN said activists.

Fighting before Friday, dozens of people died in the last two weeks in Syria, with many deaths reported in is ' the southern town of A, where popular demonstrations started, and city of Latakia, activists say the coasts.

Demonstrators say they are oppressed and Bashar al-Assad regime have poor living conditions under the regime of President, and they have taken for expressing yourself in the sights.

The Syrian Observatory for human rights calls "authorities release all political prisoners in Syrian prisons, and political practice of arbitrary detention against political opponents and civil society activists and human rights end and carrying out all procedures to ensure that the citizens of their legitimate right to peaceful assembly and expression of opinion and not to cabinets you these rights." "a"

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement on Saturday, he is "very concerned" about the unrest in Syria, "where, more civilian deaths were reported during the latest popular demonstrations."

Ban condemns the violence "against peaceful demonstrations" and said Syria should respect international human rights obligations. He added his voice to demonstrators are calling for the change saying "There are reforms that immediate and inclusive dialogue on comprehensive no alternative to one."

Activists are upset that al-Assad could not to announce the lifting of the country's State of the State of emergency during a national TV address on Wednesday and incorrect address, in which their complaints and provide the people in the streets. On Thursday said however, Syria is the idea of lifting the country's status to study emergency and immediately investigate the death of civilians and soldiers in is ' A and Latakia.

Al-Assad ordered to form a Committee, the Supreme Council of Justice, the "immediately an investigation in all cases." would lead a number of civilians and soldiers killed

The Committee explore the abolition of emergency law the study will complete expected to 25 before April. It consist of senior lawyers is reported SANA.

One of the main demands of the protesters, who on the road in the large cities of the country is the scrapping of the law, which is since 1963 in place.

The emergency law allows the Government to make preventive arrests and override constitutional and Penal Code statutes. It bars prisoners from filing court complaints or of available while the interrogation commissioned lawyer have not.CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report.

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2011年4月1日星期五

Call for new protests in Syria

But analysts said they were doubtful that the changes, one day after President pointedly refused to concessions, Bashar al-Assad come up more than window dressing would amount and activists promised to go ahead with plans for a nationwide protest on Friday.

Two Government created new committees announcements on Thursday to take the protesters concerns into account.

Appointed by a Committee investigate deaths in Dara'a and Latakia, two cities where demonstrators, the Government has cracked down, according to the State News Agency. Syrian human rights information link, an activist organization, the name of the 103 people killed in the country since the protests March 15, including at least 73 in Dara'a and 10 in Latakia started documented. It was not clear if the demonstrators killed in the Wednesday evening for Latakia contain.

The Government announced the creation of a group lift the emergency law imposed in 1963 and replaced by legislation ", ensures the maintenance of national security, would the citizens and the fight of against terrorism," to study according to the State News Agency. Abolition of emergency law was a major demand of the protesters. Under its provisions the law silence dissent and allows security forces citizens without charge held.

That demanded Syrian activists mass demonstrations across the nation to honor killed, when they demanded reforms in two weeks of protests. According to the associated press, called organizers with social networking sites for a "Friday of the martyrs" crackdown died a reference to scores of people, the Government.

The protest call could be an important test for the strength of the movement, which more than two weeks has made an unprecedented challenge of the four-decade iron rule in something the Assad family.

The police and the military have on the protests check aggressively responds; Activists say that at least 103 people have died. Mr. Assad's speech to the nation on Wednesday, where protesters dupes and agents of a foreign conspiracy, called leaving little doubt, that would continue the hard line.

Ammar al-Qurabi, a Syrian activist currently in Cairo, said the speech and the violence of the past two weeks could discourage some of the protest on Friday, but he said he remained optimistic.

"People are afraid to protest tomorrow, but there are many who are upset about the speech and the country right now, and one good many of them in happen will not shy away from, take to the street," he said.

"Of course I'm nervous;" killed my people in the street will be, "he added." "Speech of the President was very threatening."

Mr Assad, said the unrest that democracy were protests in his first public speech since the beginning of only a cover for a foreign conspiracy "Fragmentation of Syria to Syria as a nation, topple enforce an Israeli agenda."

He confirmed popular demands for reform, but insisted that protesters "had" been duped in the nation for his enemies to damage, and vowed that the country would bow to foreign pressure.

"It's clear of Bashar's speech, that he threatens Syrians, which go in the street," said Radwan Ziadeh, a Syrian human rights activist and visiting scholar at George Washington University in Washington. "" He ended the speech with the words,"this is a fight and we are ready to fight." "But against whom?"

This question seemed only hours after the speech answered when security forces opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators in the coastal city of Latakia, one stronghold of the ruling Baath party and the Shiite Alawi sect that dominates it. Witnesses and activists gave conflicting reports of 2 15 demonstrators killed.

To see in a video on YouTube posted demonstrators in Latakia and listen, sing, "The people want only freedom." In a second bear screaming demonstrators bloody put on the road.

Nevertheless, calls the Facebook group Syrian revolution 2011, to go more than 100,000 fans Syrians who, on Friday on the road. "What we understand from the talk is that we have no choice, but the regime remove" said the group in a statement posted Thursday.

Activists expressed little confidence that the Government would expand political freedoms in a meaningful way. Mr Ziadeh said he feared that counter-terrorism laws emergency law replace only a cosmetic change would be. "they are placed on basic rights the same restrictions the terrorism law, which they implement the emergency law," he said. "The emergency law be revoked could but of the State of emergency, which governs every aspect of our lives the same be".

Alan Cowell contributed reporting from Paris.


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Call for new protests in Syria - New York Times

But analysts said they were doubtful that the changes, one day after President pointedly refused to concessions, Bashar al-Assad come up more than window dressing would amount and activists promised to go ahead with plans for a nationwide protest on Friday.

Two Government created new committees announcements on Thursday to take the protesters concerns into account.

Appointed by a Committee investigate deaths in Dara'a and Latakia, two cities where demonstrators, the Government has cracked down, according to the State News Agency. Syrian human rights information link, an activist organization, the name of the 103 people killed in the country since the protests March 15, including at least 73 in Dara'a and 10 in Latakia started documented. It was not clear if the demonstrators killed in the Wednesday evening for Latakia contain.

The Government announced the creation of a group lift the emergency law imposed in 1963 and replaced by legislation ", ensures the maintenance of national security, would the citizens and the fight of against terrorism," to study according to the State News Agency. Abolition of emergency law was a major demand of the protesters. Under its provisions the law silence dissent and allows security forces citizens without charge held.

That demanded Syrian activists mass demonstrations across the nation to honor killed, when they demanded reforms in two weeks of protests. According to the associated press, called organizers with social networking sites for a "Friday of the martyrs" crackdown died a reference to scores of people, the Government.

The protest call could be an important test for the strength of the movement, which more than two weeks has made an unprecedented challenge of the four-decade iron rule in something the Assad family.

The police and the military have on the protests check aggressively responds; Activists say that at least 103 people have died. Mr. Assad's speech to the nation on Wednesday, where protesters dupes and agents of a foreign conspiracy, called leaving little doubt, that would continue the hard line.

Ammar al-Qurabi, a Syrian activist currently in Cairo, said the speech and the violence of the past two weeks could discourage some of the protest on Friday, but he said he remained optimistic.

"People are afraid to protest tomorrow, but there are many who are upset about the speech and the country right now, and one good many of them in happen will not shy away from, take to the street," he said.

"Of course I'm nervous;" killed my people in the street will be, "he added." "Speech of the President was very threatening."

Mr Assad, said the unrest that democracy were protests in his first public speech since the beginning of only a cover for a foreign conspiracy "Fragmentation of Syria to Syria as a nation, topple enforce an Israeli agenda."

He confirmed popular demands for reform, but insisted that protesters "had" been duped in the nation for his enemies to damage, and vowed that the country would bow to foreign pressure.

"It's clear of Bashar's speech, that he threatens Syrians, which go in the street," said Radwan Ziadeh, a Syrian human rights activist and visiting scholar at George Washington University in Washington. "" He ended the speech with the words,"this is a fight and we are ready to fight." "But against whom?"

This question seemed only hours after the speech answered when security forces opened fire on pro-democracy demonstrators in the coastal city of Latakia, one stronghold of the ruling Baath party and the Shiite Alawi sect that dominates it. Witnesses and activists gave conflicting reports of 2 15 demonstrators killed.

To see in a video on YouTube posted demonstrators in Latakia and listen, sing, "The people want only freedom." In a second bear screaming demonstrators bloody put on the road.

Nevertheless, calls the Facebook group Syrian revolution 2011, to go more than 100,000 fans Syrians who, on Friday on the road. "What we understand from the talk is that we have no choice, but the regime remove" said the group in a statement posted Thursday.

Activists expressed little confidence that the Government would expand political freedoms in a meaningful way. Mr Ziadeh said he feared that counter-terrorism laws emergency law replace only a cosmetic change would be. "they are placed on basic rights the same restrictions the terrorism law, which they implement the emergency law," he said. "The emergency law be revoked could but of the State of emergency, which governs every aspect of our lives the same be".

Alan Cowell contributed reporting from Paris.


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