[youtube id = Y_YBwRWtJ6w] Video showing the killing of peaceful protesters in Daraa Daraya Amoda Harasta (Damascus) Homs suburbs, Talbesak

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[wp-imageflow2] Pictures from Nawa in Dara which has been under siege by the military and security forces for 5 days now. Human rights activists report that eeople are running out of food and water and don´t have milk for their children.

We; the poets and writers participating of “The Sixth World Poetic Festival”, held these days from 26 April till 1 May 2011 in Istanbul under the motto “The Spring of the Arab World” to honor the revolutions in the Arab World hereby condemn the massacres committed by the Syrian regime against unarmed civilized people calling peacefully for freedom, dignity, justice, […]

More than 425 detainees were released on Tuesday April, 26, who demonstrated in Deir al-Zour. Some of them were released from the security branches, and others from the Justice Palace after they having been referred to the courts. The reception for the released turned into celebration; they were welcomed with loud chants against Jameh Jameh, the chief of military security […]

[youtube id = Eaemy9-DEl0] Intense shooting in the city of Talkalakh Amnesty international demands that the UN Security Council must refer the situation in Syria to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Deir Al-Zour: Otham bin Afan mosque in the old airport neighbourhood in Deir Al-Zour (Eastern Syria) was closed until further notice. The first demo started from there, […]

[youtube id = 1vajs18Z22w] Funeral of Ghasan Abdelkarim Alabdo from Saraqeb Al-Qalmon, Fulayta: 3 martyrs from Qalmon passed away after they were shot dead by a sniper on April 23. People found their dead bodies and buried them on April 26. The three Martyrs are: Father Ibrahim Bero, an agricultural engineer and his two sons Shadi Bero, a 3rd year […]

Bloggers and activists have gathered a list of Twitter feeds that provide reliable news from inside Syria on a regular basis. The following list was shared by Christopher R Albon and Saleh Dawabsheh on Facebook. For Twitter updates from Syria follow: @MalathAumran — If you want to keep on top of events in Syria, the first thing you should do […]

Earlier in the day, Nawa in the south as well as the Damascus suburbs of Douma, Mouaddamiyyah and Kisweh among others, were besieged with tanks and security forces conducted house-to-house raids in search of specific blacklisted individuals. Many fatalities had been reported, and hundreds of arrests.

SMN No. 17, April 26, 2011 Two new Facebook pages provide news updates in English about the Syrian uprising.The page “Monitoring Protests in Syria” defines itself as “an online page for monitoring human rights violations during the protests in Syria”, and connects itself to the page of the American organization “Human Rights Watch”. In addition to publishing their […]