Syrian forces fired on demonstrators on Friday killing nine and wounding several others as thousands pour onto the streets of Damascus. Activits said thousands of protesters also demonstrated in other Syrian towns and cities after the weekly Muslim prayers calling for the fall of Assad’s the autocratic regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
The demonstrations were in response to a call by the Facebook group Syrian Revolution 2011, one of the motors of the protests under the banner, “Fall of legitimacy.” “One person was killed and nine other protesters were wounded when security forces opened fire to disperse demonstrators in Kiswah,” near Damascus, Rami Abdel Rahman who heads the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP in Nicosia, reached by telephone.
“More than 30,000 demonstrated in Deir Ezzor, across several areas of the city, and thousands of people also came out in the neighbouring town of Median,” he added.
