Saturday, December 15, 2007

Break up “Damascus Declaration” Meeting

This story came in from Farid:

Damascus - December 14, 2007/Aafaq/ -- Wednesday evening Syrian security forces raided the home of Riad Seif and broke up a meeting of the Secretariat of the “Damascus Declaration for National Democratic Change in Syria.” Those who were present at the time of the raid were threatened with arrest if they did not leave the house immediately. [Full Story in Arabic]
This was just two days after the government launched a campaign of arrests across Syria sweeping up leading members of the political opposition.

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