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Syrian activists report that the security stormed the mosque and injured the 80-year-old imam, who needed medical attention. The mosque was damaged in the interior as 150 people were arrested.
According to opposition, people protested in other neighborhood of the capital early on Saturday. Activists are reported to have called on protesters to converge on Abaseen Square, in central Damascus, but it is said that only 60 people showed up.
According to reports, thousands of people demonstrated on Friday against the regime in the eastern and southern towns, and the intervention of the security forces caused several people to die.
In Douma, northeast of Damascus, security is reported to have intervened against 6,000 to 7,000 people who were protesting. Activists said that worshippers from six mosques gathered in front of the Grand Mosque in Douma. They were going home after an hour, when the secret police arrived and started shooting at people.
These incidents come after the president Bashar al-Assad announced two weeks ago that the crackdown on protesters has ended and that order was installed in the country.
Last week, Assad attended a celebration of the clergy and used the occasion to warn that clergy should dedicate to their spiritual tasks and the religion should not be used for other purposes than the one it is meant to exist for.
He was alluding to the fact that the people protest especially on Fridays, after the Muslim weekly prayer.
Al-Assad also promised the Syrians that reforms will begin, and spoke of parliamentary elections on February.
Protest in Douma
The unrest in Syria was not directed against Al-Assad, whose family had ruled Syria for over 40 years, but against the corruption and the repressive nature of the systems. At first, the Syrians demanded a better life, and were ready to accept the changes the regime was going to make.
When the first demonstration was brutally dispersed, and after people began to die, the protesters demanded the president to step down, whereas the president began speaking of an international conspiracy against his rule, orchestrated by the United States and the “Zionists.”
Situation became critical on the eve of the Muslim month of Ramadan, observed in August this year, when 100 people were killed in one day after the military entered the city of Hama. Every since, the crackdown became harder and harder.
This triggered a reaction from the West, still a very pale one as compared to the one against Libya’s Qaddafi, who’s been overthrown and is now on the run with an international arrest warrant and a bounty on his head.
The UN Security Council issued a presidential statement condemning the crackdown but many criticized it as being to soft. Last week the U.S. president officially demanded that the president of Syria step down and face judgment for what he has done.
Convened last week, UN Human Rights Council voted a resolution tabled by Poland, the current rotating leader of the European Union, in which the crackdown was condemned and an investigation in what Assad did was requested.
The panel of inquiry is to present his conclusions by November, at which time the UN Security Council will decide if an international arrest warrant should be issued in the name of the president of Syria.
Meanwhile Russia introduced a counter-resolution on Syria, in which it condemns the atrocities of the regime but warns against turning Syria into a new Libya.
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