Fearing anti-regime protests | Regime security services arrest nearly 55 civilians in different provinces

With the growing uprising and daily mass demonstrations in Al-Suwaidaa, regime authorities are concerned about staging similar protests and demonstrations in other provinces especially with the growing public anger over the disastrous situations at all levels, including the living, political and economical situations. Instead of working on improving those situations, the Syrian regime keeps clinging to its repressing policy to clamp down on civilians and tightening security grip through launching daily campaigns to arbitrarily arrest young and adult men on charge of “planning to stage sit-in protests and demonstrations,” while others are arrested under “cybercrimes” after expressing their opinion and condemning the dreadful living conditions in their posts and comments on social media.

 

In this context, SOHR activists have documented the arrest of 53 people by regime security services over those accusations in different Syrian provinces since early September. Here is a regional distribution of those arrested people:

 

• Deir Ezzor: 25

 

• Aleppo: 7

 

• Latakia: 5

 

• Rif Dimashq: 4

 

• Tartus: 4

 

• Jableh: 3

 

• Hama: 3

 

• Damascus: 2

 

Last month, Asmaa Al-Akhras, the wife of the Syrian regime’s president, ordered elders of the Alawite community in the Syrian coastline to monitor the region’s residents and persuade them not to take part in any protests. This coincided with the growing discontent against Bashar Al-Assad and his wife by residents in all Syrian provinces, especially in the Syrian coastline.

 

In August, SOHR sources reported that 70 civilians, including two children and six women, were arrested arbitrarily by regime security services in all Syrian provinces since early August, over a half of whom were arrested for “planning to stage sit-in protests and demonstrations.”

 

The arrested civilians can be distributed regionally as follows:

 

• Aleppo: 22 persons, including four women and two children.

 

• Rif Dimashq: Nine persons, including two women.

 

• Deir Ezzor: 13 persons.

 

• Latakia: 11 persons.

 

• Tartus: Seven persons.

 

• Damascus: Six persons.

 

• Hama: Two persons.