Deraa shelling
President Bashar al-Assad’s campaign to preserve his 11-year rule took a drastic turn last week after his brother Maher led a tank-backed army unit in shelling protesters into submission at Deraa, the southern city that has been the epicentre of the six-week-old uprising.
Wissam Tarif, executive director of the Insan human rights group, said detainees include activists, community leaders, or people seen documenting the violence on mobile phone or uploading the content to the internet.
Authorities blamed armed groups and infiltrators for stoking unrest and firing on civilians and security forces.
Assad said on Wednesday that the operation in Deraa would be over “very soon”, according to the semi-official al-Watan newspaper.
The Insan human rights group said on Tuesday that 2,843 detainees had been verified by family members and the actual number could be as high as 8,000.
More than 800 of them had been taken from Deraa, Reuters reported.
On Tuesday the International Committee of the Red Cross urged Syria to lift restrictions on access to casualties in Deraa.
In the coastal city of Baniyas, about 1,000 protesters marched in the city centre waving flatbread, in solidarity with the people of Deraa.
Source: Agencies
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