According to Western news agencies, in opposition rallies in the cities of Homs, Hama, the Duma, and even some cities in the vicinity of Damascus and other parts of the country attended by tens of thousands of people. Syrian security forces have used against the demonstrators firearms and tear gas. The Syrian media also denies widespread protests in the past. Thus, the Qatari TV channel Al-Jazeera reported, citing one of the activists, about 10 thousands of protesters in the town of Salama in the heart of Syria. However, reports of Syrian Radio Sham FM»claims that there was no demonstration in Salam did not exist, and information" activist "was invented. As reported by the Syrian TV channel Al-Akhbar, a demonstration that took place on Friday after midday prayers, mostly worn by "peaceful and not accompanied by any complications." Thus, about 500 people with slogans "in the name of Syria and Freedom held a demonstration in the north-eastern town of Al-Qamishli, this action, as stated in the message," no let ". Also, without the collision was a similar demonstration in the southern Syrian city Dera'a. Participation in it took about 500 people. A small demonstration, attended by about 75 people, was held at the Mediterranean port of Latakia. Her, the report said, "stopped and stopped the" city residents themselves. Turned out to be exaggerated and scale protest in Damascus Midan area. According to the testimony of one witness who told them about what they saw on Syrian television, about 200 people expected the end of prayers in the mosque, and then began shouting anti-government slogans. However, people leaving a mosque they have not joined, and passed it by. Soon dispersed themselves the initiators of the action. No police, according to an eyewitness, nearby was not. No more than 50 people participated in protests in another district of Damascus – Barzu, informs television channel "Al-Akhbar. However, the radio station Sham FM»reports about the shooting, which is heard in the city of Hama, in the heart of Syria. "Unknown persons fired at a police station in the Baida," – says a report on possible casualties but said nothing. On the eve of opposition groups called for mass demonstrations across Syria, calling the date "Good Friday", thereby indicating that it should be decisive in the confrontation with the authorities. The call for mass protests sounded despite the Syrian Government announced an ambitious program of reforms and, in particular, the abolition of emergency in the country, as announced on Thursday, President Assad. Unrest in Syria began in mid-March, after arrest on the border with Jordan town Dera'a groups of students who wrote anti-government slogans on the walls. People took to the streets to demand their release. Later unrest spread to other parts of the country. In clashes with police were killed, according to unofficial data, about 200 people, more than 20 of them – the military and the security forces. Causes of unrest in the country of the Syrian authorities have explained the "foreign plot" against national unity of Syria. Meanwhile, the government announced plans to conduct a broad program of political and economic reforms. For example, Syrian President Bashar Assad on Thursday signed a decree on the abolition of operating in the country since 1963 emergency. The law restricts the rights and freedoms of citizens, prevent the detention and questioning of any person, observation of personal relationships, established media censorship. Its abolition was one of the main demands of the country erupted in protests, calling for broad political reforms. Simultaneously with the decree on the state of emergency, President Assad signed a decree abolishing the Supreme State Security Court, the prerogative of reviewing cases involving the violation of the Emergency Provisions Act, and on the right of citizens to demonstrate peacefully ". Their conduct is allowed with the permission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Syria.
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