Syrian protesters call more demos despite crackdown
Friday, 29 April 2011
DAMASCUS, Apr 28 (AFP): A Facebook group called for mass protests across Syria Friday, piling pressure on President Bashar al-Assad's regime as it faces international censure for violently crushing dissent.
"Friday of Anger, April 29, in solidarity with Daraa," says a notice on the Syrian Revolution 2011 page of Facebook, a motor of the protests in which demonstrators inspired by uprisings elsewhere in the Arab world are seeking greater freedoms.
"To the youths of the revolution, tomorrow we will be in all the places, in all the streets ... we will gather at the besieged towns, including with our brothers in Daraa," said the statement posted online Thursday.