Syrian opposition figure "holding"

20 April 2011, last updated 11: 42 -YOU have had continuous protests despite Government concessions, promised to the Syrian authorities have arrested prominent opposition figure, human rights activists say.

The security services took Mahmud Issa reportedly home, shortly after he gave an interview with al-Jazeera TV.

President Bashar al-Assad, meanwhile, was expected to lift the emergency measures which have been in place for almost half a century.

Authorities released Sheikh Zayed Road, where several people have died in the security crackdown in the Security Chief.

The official, Abbas was Amjad spotted on video violence, activists said.

The move follows the Deraa and Homs, which have seen large demonstrations in the earlier dismissal of the Directors-General.

Several thousands of students out on Wednesday for fresh protests in Deraa Associated Press news agency reported, even if the student protests in the northern city of Aleppo also indicated.

Confusing signals

Mr. Issa, Professor of English and known left wing activist has previously used a total of 11 years in prison in Syria.

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The Syrian emergency law, which will continue in full force and effect for an indefinite period of time in most of the protections of the Constitution, was the place, because of the Ba'th Party came to power in an army coup.

The Syrian Government to justify the introduction of legislation in the past, a war that still exists in the State of Israel and the militant groups pose threats.

The Syrian Prime Minister of emergency situations, justice and the Minister of the Interior of the country designated as Deputy Governor of the laws of the State of war, and gave them additional powers.

These include the possibility to impose restrictions on the freedoms of meetings, travel and residence permits, in certain places or, in particular, the journey times; -the preventive arrest warrant anyone suspected to be a threat to public safety and order; allow the persons and places; research, and assign the person to perform these tasks.

The Syrian human rights Committee described emergency legislation "[for] the most repressive measures by law for the protection of the rights and liberties of the Syrian citizens without exception." It is likely that led directly to the thousands of violations of human rights.

He requested that his al-Jazeera interview with brigadier general, who was reportedly killed during the protests on Sunday, several Homs family death investigation.

The Government has claimed that they were shot dead by "armed gangs", which they struggle with the recent unrest.

The Government adopted on Tuesday, Syria to the lifting of emergency laws, while at the same time, also in the legislation, which obliges people to get permission before they engage in protests.

The Interior Ministry had previously urged people to refrain from taking, on the whole.

Even as the protests were reported overnight in several locations, including the capital Damascus suburb.

BBC: n Owen Bennett-Jones of the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, the Syrian Government says has given confusing signals about how much is ready to make concessions and an internal debate on how to respond to the continuing protests, it seems that it could continue for some time.

President Assad was expected to fast-track for the lifting of emergency legislation to override the law of the Parliament, al-Watan newspaper reported.

OUR says, the opposition now appear in the Organization of another large demonstration centers after Friday prayers at the end of the week.

Activists say, about 200 Syrian have died since the unrest began more than a month ago.

It is followed by other Arab countries, many popular uprisings in recent weeks.

Syria is being watched closely for its influential role it plays within the Middle East.

Britain, which advise against all but essential travel to Syria on Wednesday called on Britain, citizens in addition to "consider leaving the commercial means."

 

Syrian TV said security forces, demonstrators clash (AP)

BEIRUT – protests exploded in at least three part of Syria on Friday in the most serious unrest this year in one of the most repressive States, Middle East, according to accounts from governmental tv, witnesses and social media.

The Government's television station and news agency said the "infiltrators" in the southern town of Deraa caused "chaos and riots" and smashed cars and public and private property before they attacked riot police who chased them away. It said a similar demonstration in the coastal town of Banyas dispersed without incident.

Amateur video recordings posted on YouTube and Twitter showed large groups of protesters in several cities, but its authenticity could not immediately be confirmed independently.

Serious disturbances in Syria would be a great expansion of the wave of unrest is tearing through the Arab world for more than a month in the wake of the pro-democracy uprisings that overthrew the autocratic leaders in Tunisia and Egypt. Syria, a predominantly Sunni country ruled by minority Alawites, has a history of brutally crushing dissent — including a notorious incident that President Hafez Assad crushed a Muslim fundamentalist uprising in the city of Hama in 1982, killing thousands.

An amateur video posted Friday showed what appeared to be Show Syrian Government trucks spraying water on the Chileans. Two other purposes to show several thousand men gathering in Banyas and the city of Homs.

A YouTube video claiming to be shot in Banyas showed several thousand demonstrators gathering around an old stone building with a Syrian flag fluttering from its roof. A cluster of men stood on his balcony with a speaker. In the middle of the fair "Freedom!" and "there is only one God!" cried a man a list of protesters requirements — ranging from freedom of expression to allow Muslim women with face veil to school.

In the capital, plainclothes security officers strongly scattered about a dozen protesters are calling for more freedoms in the country, said human rights activists earlier in the day.

The activists said the protest occurred the famous Umayyad mosque Damascus Yard shortly after Friday prayers. At least two demonstrators were detained, they said.

The protest was the third small rally broken up in Damascus this week.

Assad's death in 2000 after three decades of authoritarian rule raised hope a freer society under his British-educated son and successor, Bashar. Political institutions in which political and economic issues were discussed openly jumped across the country.

But the "Damascus Spring" as it came to be known was short-lived. In 2001, began secret police raiding institutions, detention two legislators and dozens of other activists in the following years.

In 2004, forces bloody clashes, which began in the northeastern city of Qamishli between Syrian Kurds and security left at least 25 people died and some 100 wounded.

On Friday, said eight Syrian human rights groups also a Prosecutor had questioned and charged with dozens of demonstrators hurt the State's image.

The groups said the 32 activists denied the charges. They included four relatives of political prisoner Kamal Labawani, who is serving a 12-year prison sentence.

The activists were detained Wednesday when plainclothes security officers armed with sales incentive dispersed a protest near the Interior Ministry to demand the release of political prisoners.

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Diaa Hadid and Zeina Karam in Cairo contributed to this report.