By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
AMMAN (Reuters) - the Syrian security forces arrested 200 people in a coastal city as unprecedented challenges to the rule of President Bashar al-Assad has continued to spread, a human rights lawyer said Wednesday.
"They brought in a TV crew and forced men, they stopped shouting"Sacrifice us our blood and our souls for you, Bashar"during the filming," the lawyer, who has been in contact with residents in Baida, 10 km south of the town of Banias of the Mediterranean Seatold Reuters.
The lawyer, who did not want to be further identified, said that the events on Tuesday.
"The Syria is the State of Arab police par excellence." But the regime still look international reaction, and whenever it detects that it has weakened, it turns more bloody, "the lawyer added."
Al-Assad, who was trying to position the Syria as champion self-proclaimed "resistance" to Israel while seeking peace with the State Jewish and accepting offers for rehabilitation, West responded to demonstrations with a mixture of force - its security forces killed unarmed - demonstrators and promises of reform.
But the public demands for freedom and to put an end to corruption, now in their fourth week, have not yet reduced.
Syrian secret police and soldiers surround Baida Tuesday and entered the houses, arresting men up to 60 years. Shooting was heard earlier in the day and a man was killed, the activists said.
They said Baida was targeted because its residents participated in a demonstration at Banias last week in which demonstrators shouted: "The people want the overthrow of the regime" - the rallying cry of the Tunisian and Egyptian revolts. ? More...
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