Regime
Continues to Violate Annan’s Peace Plan
kl:12,00 24|05|2012 Sawtalkurd
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- UN observers visited the Central Prison of Homs where they were misled by security personnel into secondary wards.
- Lawyers in the city of Aleppo held a sit-in at the Courthouse to demand the release of detainees, while demonstrations continued at Aleppo University.
- Syrian oil minister announced that a Venezuelan tanker carrying 35,000 Tons of diesel docked in Syria.
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Summary of Events
UN observers visited the town of Dael in the province of Daraa, while another group visited the Central Prison of Homs where they were misled by security personnel into secondary wards to ignore the demonstrations in the political prisoners’ section. Political prisoners have been on a hunger strike and the regime reacted by attacking them.
The regime’s violations to the ceasefire continued, as its forces shelled the city of Atareb in the province of Aleppo and the neighbourhoods of Bayad and Jala in the city of Hama, opened heavy fire in the villages of Kinda and Rwaisa in the province of Latakia and the village of Baida in the province of Tartous, shelled the town of Kafrouma with tanks, and shelled the village of Ferkaya in the province of Idlib using helicopters. Regime forces also opened heavy random fire in the town of Tafas and conducted arbitrary arrests and sweeps in the town of Lajat in the province of Daraa.
Assad’s forces killed at least 28 today; seven in the province of Homs due to the shelling of the cities of Homs, Qasir and Rastan, and six in the capital due to the regime’s heavy firing in the suburbs of Kafarbatna, Saqba and Yelda, and five in Deir Azzour as regime forces opened fire at demonstrations and field-executed three arrested demonstrators.
Peaceful revolutionary activities continued in the city of Aleppo, as the lawyers of the city held a sit-in at the Central Courthouse to demand the release of detainees, while demonstrations and sit-ins continued in several colleges at Aleppo University.
Syrian Oil Minister announced that a Venezuelan tanker carrying 35,000 Tons of diesel docked in Syria, and that another Venezuelan shipment will arrive in Syria soon. The Minister added that there are deliberations with Iran and Algeria for diesel imports as well.