Anti-government protests expand in Syria’s Daraa

DARAA, Syria (North Press) – Several cities and towns in Daraa Governorate, southern Syria, witnessed on Sunday anti-government protests, holding it responsible for the deteriorating economic and living conditions.

Locals sources told North Press, “Dozens of people took to the streets in protests against the Syrian government in the city of Sanamayn in the northern countryside of Daraa, demanding the Syrian regime to leave.”

The protesters gathered on the main road of the city and chanted to “oust the regime” and release detainees. They condemned the starvation policy adopted by the government against the Syrian people and held it responsible for the dire economic conditions, the sources added.

According to sources, protestors in the village of Baiyt Irah and the towns of Tasil and Shajarah in the western countryside of Daraa, and the cities of Dael and Jassem in the north of Daraa, went out in protests against the Syrian government and demanded the “regime” to leave and release the forcibly detained.

Activists in the town of Maaraba in the eastern countryside of Daraa raised the flag of the Syrian revolutions on a pillar in the town “without demonstrations by the locals, the sources added.

In the past few days, Daraa and its countryside witnessed anti-government demonstrations amid calls to daily protests and their expansion.

By Ihsan Muhammad