Thursday 17 May 2012

Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (17/05/2012): At least 23 martyrs have fallen today. Assad’s forces continue to shell many towns and cities including Rastan and al-Houla near Homs, besieged al-Herak in Daraa province and Daraya and Duma, 2 of the largest suburbs of the capital. In Duma a whole family was killed when a shell hit their house. Meanwhile, the leader of the SNC, Burhan Ghalioun, has bowed to pressure and annoucned he will step down once a replacement has been found. See the map for more info: Google map Read more

Interview with Abdalaziz al-Khair, leading figure of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change, Syria

16 May 2012: Abdulaziz al-Khair was a leading member of the Communist Action Party. He was persecuted and had to live underground for more than ten years. He was arrested and tortured in 1992, sentenced to 22 years and released in 2005. In 2007 he participated in founding the “Left Assembly”, which included the Communist Action Party, the Kurdish Left Party, the Body of Syrian Communists, the Marxist Democratic Assembly and the Coordination Committee of the Members of the Syrian Communist Party – Politburo. Read more

Syria: Deported Palestinian journalist speaks out about torture in custody

A prominent journalist has told Amnesty International how Syrian government forces tortured and detained him in deplorable conditions before deporting him to Jordan on Monday.

Salameh Kaileh, a 57-year-old Jordanian national of Palestinian descent, has lived and worked in the Syrian capital Damascus since 1981.  Read more

Wednesday 16 May 2012

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Urgent! Rastan being violently bombarded - Homs province: The assault on Rastan has resumed, after a lull for 3 hours. 30 rockets have pounded Rastan in the last 10 minutes.

In the light of this ongoing assault, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights strongly urges the UN monitoring mission to head towards the city of Rastan, which the regime is gradually destroying. Read more

Tuesday 15 May 2012

Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (15/05/2012): At least 73 martyrs have fallen today. Most of the martyrs fell in the massacre in Khan Shaykhun, and the regime also renewed it’s attack on Deir Ezzor city and an apartment building in Baniyas was bombed. Meanwhile there has been heavy shelling on Rastan and the villages around Qusayr where pro-Assad Lebanese have been involved in the fighting. For all those who care, the results of the elections for the Assad Assembly of Applause was announced. Syria – Tuesday 15/05/2012 – Google Maps Read more

A letter from the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change to the Secretary of the Arab League

Your Excellency Secretary of the Arab League Dr. Nabeel Al-Araby,

With our great appreciation for the efforts of the Arab League, and the office of Mr. Kofi Annan, for organizing the “Syrian opposition forum”, and with our emphasis on the importance of the League sponsoring such talks, we would like to clarify certain points: Read more

Monday 14 May 2012

Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (14/05/2012): Assad’s forces continue to show the extent of their commitment to the Annan plan by launching new invasions of Kafar Zita and Morek in Hama countryside while the FSA beat back another attack on Rastan. Meanwhile, Assad probably already wishes that Aleppo University didn’t reopen yesterday. Things are back to how they were before the 10 days closure, with large protests on campus and students being tear gassed, beaten and detained by the regime’s thugs. At least 1176 martyrs have now fallen since the start of the “ceasefire” on 12th April. The EU has responded with new sanctions. Syria – Monday 14/05/2012 – Google Maps Read more

Sunday 13 May 2012

Kofu Annan keeps going and has our support.

Syrian Uprising 2011 Information Centre: SUMMARY (13/05/2012): At least 29 martyrs have fallen today. The worst incident was the massacre in Tamana’ah village in Hama province, where Assad’s thugs killed 9 residents, including 3 women, and burned the village mosque. Rastan is under heavy shelling while the UN observers left Qusayer after they were shot at by Assad’s forces. Meanwhile, in Barzeh, Damascus, the people had to kidnap an officer so they could exchange him for the bodies of 7 martyrs who fell last week. Sunday 13 May 2012 Read more

Saturday 12 May 2012

PLEASE SHARE THIS: Press release: Free Khulood Al-Israwi @ syrianncb.org. Government forces detained Khulood Al Israwi and several of her fellow activists when they were protesting outside the Damascus citadel today at 8 p.m. 12/5/2012. Khulood is a member of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change in Syria – NCB’s central committee.

Free Khulood and all those detained for voicing their conscience!
Freedom for all of those detained in the regime’s prisons! Read more

Friday 11 May 2012

Three Kurds and an Arabic woman were killed on 9 May on Aleppo by Shabiha and were buried yesterday- 10 May –  in Afrin, Ahmed Osman, Batal Abdo, and Ahmad Kocher. The Arabic woman was Amina Deyab. More than 150,000 went to the funeral. 

Fifteen Kurds were kidnapped by Shabiha and intelligence security on 9 May 2012 as they traveled from Afrin to Aleppo.  Shabiha and security are pushing for ethnic fighting between Arabs and Kurds. Firat News Agency.  Read more

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