Syria tells public to stay home as the Opposition called for rallies

April 29, 2011, 3: 34 pm EDT by Massoud a. Derhally

April 29 (Bloomberg)--the Ministry of the Interior the Syria warned its citizens not step to organize demonstrations and "contribute to the stability and security" of the country as pledged to defy a deadly repression and continue protests by activists.

The Syrians said Ministry should "refrain from exercising rallies or demonstrations and sit-ins, under a title pending approval of" of the authorities, according to a statement carried by managed by the Government of Syria Arab News Agency. "The laws will be applied to serve the security of citizens and the stability of the homeland", the Ministry said.Demonstrators will likely challenge the ban because "nothing important was held to appease the anger of the people", Abdul - Karim Rihawi, head of the Syrian human rights League, said in a telephone interview from Damascus late yesterday. The opposition that Muslim Brotherhood called on people to demonstrate today, Al-Arabiya television reported. Anti-Government protests have intensified after the Friday prayer since the beginning of the agitation in the workplace March.The last exercised repression since last Friday prayers, especially in the southern region of Dara, pushed the number of deaths throughout the country since the middle of March to more than 450, says organization the national Syria for human rights. The demonstrations are part of a wave of popular movements who unseated leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, violent reactions pricked in Libya and Bahrain and oil prices have helped grow more than 20 per cent this year.More than 1,000 people were arrested across the country since the latest demonstrations began on April 22, with the total number of detentions since unrest began at least 2,000 according to Mahmoud Merhiwho heads the Arab Organization for Human Rights.European PressureEuropean nations have intensified pressure on the Syria, summoning the ambassadors and pushing for an organization of the United Nations vote to protest against violence. In New York, China and the directed Russia opposition blocked an initiative on 27 April by the United States and its European allies to the Security Council of the United Nations to condemn the attacks of the Syrian Government on peaceful demonstrators.United Kingdom Foreign Secretary William Hague also removed invitation of Syrian Ambassador to marriage of today of Prince William and Kate Middleton of the London.European Union officials will meet in Brussels today to discuss the Syria. Germany supports sanctions on the direction of the Syria, including restrictions on travel and financial freezes, German Government spokesman Steffen Seibert told journalists in Berlin yesterday.

-Editors: Ben Holland, Karl Maier.

To contact the reporters on this story: Massoud a. Derhally to Beirut, to the Lebanon to the mderhally@bloomberg.net

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

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Syria tells public to stay home as the Opposition called for rallies - BusinessWeek

April 29, 2011, 3: 34 pm EDT by Massoud a. Derhally

April 29 (Bloomberg)--the Ministry of the Interior the Syria warned its citizens not step to organize demonstrations and "contribute to the stability and security" of the country as pledged to defy a deadly repression and continue protests by activists.

The Syrians said Ministry should "refrain from exercising rallies or demonstrations and sit-ins, under a title pending approval of" of the authorities, according to a statement carried by managed by the Government of Syria Arab News Agency. "The laws will be applied to serve the security of citizens and the stability of the homeland", the Ministry said.Demonstrators will likely challenge the ban because "nothing important was held to appease the anger of the people", Abdul - Karim Rihawi, head of the Syrian human rights League, said in a telephone interview from Damascus late yesterday. The opposition that Muslim Brotherhood called on people to demonstrate today, Al-Arabiya television reported. Anti-Government protests have intensified after the Friday prayer since the beginning of the agitation in the workplace March.The last exercised repression since last Friday prayers, especially in the southern region of Dara, pushed the number of deaths throughout the country since the middle of March to more than 450, says organization the national Syria for human rights. The demonstrations are part of a wave of popular movements who unseated leaders in Egypt and Tunisia, violent reactions pricked in Libya and Bahrain and oil prices have helped grow more than 20 per cent this year.More than 1,000 people were arrested across the country since the latest demonstrations began on April 22, with the total number of detentions since unrest began at least 2,000 according to Mahmoud Merhiwho heads the Arab Organization for Human Rights.European PressureEuropean nations have intensified pressure on the Syria, summoning the ambassadors and pushing for an organization of the United Nations vote to protest against violence. In New York, China and the directed Russia opposition blocked an initiative on 27 April by the United States and its European allies to the Security Council of the United Nations to condemn the attacks of the Syrian Government on peaceful demonstrators.United Kingdom Foreign Secretary William Hague also removed invitation of Syrian Ambassador to marriage of today of Prince William and Kate Middleton of the London.European Union officials will meet in Brussels today to discuss the Syria. Germany supports sanctions on the direction of the Syria, including restrictions on travel and financial freezes, German Government spokesman Steffen Seibert told journalists in Berlin yesterday.

-Editors: Ben Holland, Karl Maier.

To contact the reporters on this story: Massoud a. Derhally to Beirut, to the Lebanon to the mderhally@bloomberg.net

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

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Canadians advised Syria of exit toll climbs

The Federal Government is advising Canadians to leave the Syria after that the security forces he killed at least 11 lament taking part in funeral processions Saturday for the demonstrators killed in anti-Government protests.

Reports of the killings, including the city of the South of Izraa and the suburbs of Damascus in the Duma, were not independently confirmed because the Syria expelled foreign journalists.

Ammar Qurabi, head of the national organization of the Syria for human rights, confirmed at least 11 dead Saturday. A total of 112 were killed Friday--regarded as the most deadly day of the uprising, with the security forces demonstrators back blows with bullets, tear gas and batons.

Violence and the likelihood of events more can, has prompted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Canada to advise Canadians against travel in the country and Syria Canadians to leave by commercial facilities while they are still available. The Ministry said those requiring emergency assistance should contact the Embassy of the Canada in Damascus.

Syrian anti-government demonstrators held a national flag bloodied during the procession on Saturday for activists murdered in Izraa. This image was captured on a phone mobile and sent to AP (Associated Press).

Over the past five weeks, the funeral of demonstrators were often transformed into anti-Government protests. During the procession on Saturday at Izraa, thousands of people chanted slogans against the regime of President Bashar Assad that they carried coffins through the streets.

Also Saturday, two members of Parliament and a religious leader resigns in protest against the killing of demonstrators during the uprising against Al-Assad.

The two legislators, Nasser Hariri and Khalil Rifai are Dara, a southern region that has triggered protests in mid-March. In contact with politicians, militants confirmed the resignation.

In addition, Sheikh Rizq Abdul Rahim Abazeid resigned his position as the mufti of Dara. "I cannot tolerate the blood of our innocent sons and children being handed over," he said.

Every Friday, a growing number of people in cities across the country took the streets despite the rapid attacks security forces.

The Suppression of heavy security Friday and Saturday came after Assad warned last week that any other disorders would be considered as "sabotage" after fact the gesture of lifting the State of emergency decades-old, who had given security forces close coverage for surveillance and arrest powers.

Unable to find in Syria and other foreign journalists have prevented access to problem areas, a large part of the statement in the country has depended on video footage phone distributed by the activists of the opposition.

Syrian human rights groups have called on the Government to establish a Commission of judicial inquiry to prosecute those who fired on demonstrators and release all political prisoners.

Some 300 people have been killed since the uprising began last month.

Several leaders have condemned the repression against the demonstrators.

"This disgraceful use of violence to suppress the demonstrations must be completed today," the US President Barack Obama, said Friday.

Jerzy Buzek, President of the European Parliament, urged the Syrian Government to stop the "bloodbath", allow to media freedoms and free "all prisoners of conscience".

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Human Rights Watch: UN should probe deadly suppression of Syria (PA) - Ha'aretz

The New York - based Human Rights Watch urged the United Nations Sunday to implement a survey on the repression of protestors against Syrian security forces that left at least 120 people dead in the past two days.

The international rights group also called the U.S. and the EU to impose sanctions against the Syrian officials who are responsible for the use of force.

In this image acquired by the AP, Syrian anti-government demonstrators carry the coffin of an activist who was killed Friday during his funeral procession near Damascus, Syria, April 23, 2011.

More than 300 people were killed, including more than 120 on Friday and Saturday, since the uprising against the regime of President Bashar Assad began five weeks according to rights groups.

Sunday, 10 also said Syrian authorities detained activist Daniel Saud human rights groups, who heads the committees for the defence of democracy, freedoms and human rights. Saud lives in the coastal town of Banias.

Activists in Syria, said at least 14 people were killed Saturday when security officials used live bullets to disperse thousands of people, who were attending the funeral of previous victims. Saturday, two legislators Syrian announced their resignation from Parliament in protest against the killing of demonstrators.

The recent violence against demonstrators took place despite Assad approved a decree which ended five decades of the State of emergency, which had curbed the right of the Assembly in Syria and given the Government sweeping powers to crack down on dissidents.

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Syria: States of emergency - The Guardian

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Syria removes the head of the restive City police - Reuters

Demonstrators holding banners during a protest in the town of Banias, Syrian port on April 19, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/HandoutBy Khaled Yacoub Oweis

AMMAN. Wed, April 20, 2011 9: 00 am EDT

AMMAN (AFP) - the Chief of police in the Syrian city of Banias, was removed from the security, a rights group said Wednesday, after five civilians were killed in a campaign of repression against pro-democracy protests there last week.

The Syrian Observatory of human rights, citing sources in Damascus, the name of the agent as Amjad Abbas. The security forces had sealed off the city weekend after protests against President Bashar al-Assad and an attack by irregular forces loyal to El-Assad on the people who keep a Sunni mosque.

Inspired by uprisings across the Arab world, demonstrators took the streets more than a month demanding more freedoms, undaunted by a security crackdown.

Rights groups, who say more than 200 have been killed since the unrest began a month ago, have called for independent investigations into the actions of the security forces.

The last approach seemed another attempt to appease protesters, who has rejected appeals by the authorities to stop the demonstration and ignored a concession by the Government which approved legislation Tuesday to end the State of emergency in force for 48 years.

Abbas had been identified by the Banias residents said Observatory, the officer fired, as one of the security officers seen beating a villager in the town nearby Baida, according to a video.

With the Bill on the right of emergency, the newly appointed cabinet also approved legislation requires that the Syrians to obtain the permission of the State until they demonstrate.

DEFIANT PROTESTS

Hours earlier, the Ministry of the Interior asked citizens to refrain from protest to all the. Activists said the statement by the Ministry and the fact that the authorities Tuesday night arrested a figure of the left-wing opposition suggest move of the Government to lift the emergency law stop not repression.

The Defiant protests continued overnight, including in the suburbs of Damascus in Zabadane where demonstrators called "the fall of the regime" and for freedom, the rallying cry revolts in Tunisia and Egypt.

There are also sit-in in Jabla on the coast, women Barzeh Damascus rally and candlelight procession in such near the capital of the day to the next.

Homs, soldiers and irregular forces loyal to Assad dressed in black patrolled the road between two central squares, witnesses said. Shops is remained closed to protest more than 20 demonstrators was shot dead by security forces in the city since Monday, they said.

In the second city of the Syria, Aleppo, irregular forces Assad dispersed a small demonstration at the University of the city, beating several students and arresting 37, said rights activist.

The State Department, said the new law, apply for permits to hold demonstrations do not clear if the end of the State of emergency would be a less restrictive government.

A semi-official newspaper quoted an official source saying that assad would issue orders confirming the decisions of the Government, which also include the dissolution of the Supreme Court of the State of security, on Wednesday.

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Syria wishes stiff response to civil unrest - CNN

Amnesty International: most of the dead appear was killed by Dr. forcesA security tells CNN 22 civil unarmed died in Syrian DaraaThe, official news agency reported 19 of the security forces were killed.

(CNN) - the Syria Government said Saturday its intentions to crack down hard on what he describes as violent disorders by the instigators of the outside.

"There is no more place for clemency and tolerance in the application of the law", said the Ministry of the Interior.

The tough statement comes in a report of clashes in the West coastal city of Latakia on Saturday. A human rights activist, said Saturday that responsible for the hospital has he used live bullets to disperse demonstrators.

The Syria made the statement after protests generalized Friday and near Dara and Latakia, Banias, Qamishli, Homs, Duma, Moathamia, Daraya, Tal and Hama.

Protesters have been saying that their peaceful belching have been met with force by Syrian security.

The national organization for the rights of man in Syria, a group of militants, has identified 37 people killed across the country Friday. He said security forces used tear gas and firing on unarmed civilians made dozens of arrests and a descent in the houses. A witness said at least 22 unarmed civilians were killed in Dara.

Wissam tariff, a human rights activist, city responsible for the hospital as saying that the demonstrators to Latakia were treated early Saturday for injuries by live bullet. He also said funerals were planned to Dara Saturday for the demonstrators, who died Friday and said witnesses spoke of arrests in Damascus and Aleppo.

But the Syria accuses the instigators and saboteurs to infiltrate peaceful demonstrations and violent clashes. For example, the Government said 19 security forces were killed in Dara Friday and dozens of others were injured in violence caused by gunfire "armed groups" citizens and non-"security forces".

The Government is aware of the widespread condemnation and international to the Syria and Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, explains the position of the Government to foreign ambassadors in Damascus, according to the official Syrian Arab news agency or SANA.

The Ministry of the Interior noted that protesters took the streets with applications quickly addressed by the Government, which announced orders and responses to various grievances.

However, there are some malicious people, foreigners and those who have been forced by the known foreign parties, accompanied by flagrant incitement by satellite channels and internet sites, which did not like initiatives and responses to citizens requires only carried out "said the Ministry.

The Ministry said attackers burned down military and official establishments and security personnel "always committed to not to open fire" have been killed and wounded. He urged citizens to identify "criminals" responsible and report them to authorities.

"It became apparent that these individuals do not reform want and are not affected by the popular application, or banning the use of weapons, taking advantage of the latter and to infiltrate demonstrators or people to see off the coast of martyrs." "They began to open fire randomly to cause a schism between citizens and security personnel," the Ministry said.

Anti-Government protests began in mid-March, with stirring first centering in Dara region, and spread later in other regions of the country.

Dozens of people died, and the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been criticized for deadly force against anti-government protesters.

US President Barack Obama said Friday that "it is time that the Syrian Government to stop repressing its citizens and to listen to the voice of the Syrian people, calling for political and economic reforms meaningful."

Amnesty International said no armed people call "for more freedoms were allegedly attacked by security forces firing actual bullets."

"The alarming reports from today show Syria that the authorities have not modified their violent methods to deal with dissent," said Philip Luther, Director Assistant of the program of Amnesty International's Africa of North and Middle East.

Amnesty said Friday that at least 171 people are supposed to have been killed in the last three weeks of protest.

Abuse in Syria have long been alleged in the international arena, before even the protests began last month.

The US State Department report was published just 2010 human rights, said last year committed security forces Syrian "unlawful killings, political and human rights activists detained and tortured and physically abused prisoners and detainees with impunity."

Government opponents argue the massive violations of human rights and call for political and economic reforms. They also want the release of all political prisoners and at the end of the emergency law.

An application has been the lifting of the 48 years of the country emergency law.

The emergency law authorizes the Government to carry out preventive arrests and override constitutional and the laws of the penal code. In force since 1963, it also prevents the detainees who were not charged to file complaints to the Court and to have a lawyer present during interrogation.

Al-Assad indicated that it is capable of reform and that it has formed a Committee to study the lifting of the emergency law. He also announced Syrian nationality to thousands of people in the region of the Kurdish country which had been stripped of their citizenship and classified as "foreign". Salma Abdelaziz of CNN has contributed to this report.

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