Syria frees 48 Kurds, hoping to ease grievances

FE Team | Published: April 08, 2011 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

BEIRUT, Apr 7 (Reuters): Syria has released 48 ethnic Kurds, a rights group said, in the latest move by President Bashar al-Assad to try to ease resentment over nearly five decades of authoritarian Baathist rule. Once unthinkable popular protests have shaken mainly Sunni Muslim Syria for nearly three weeks, with demonstrators demanding an end to emergency law and one-party rule by the Baath Party.