Hundreds of displaced people continue their open sit-in for the second consecutive day in Daraa countryside

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that hundreds of displaced people from Namer, Kharbat Ghazala and Al-Sheikh Meskeen towns have been continuing their sit-in since Tuesday, the 5th of September 2017, in order to achieve their demands to return to their homes in their towns which are controlled by the regime forces, and to release the detainees of these towns and the detainees of Daraa countryside of who are in the prisons and detention centers of the regime forces, and reveal the considerations of the current negotiations about Nasib Border Crossing, and clarify the course of negotiations about the crossing connecting between the Syrian and Jordanian territories, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published yesterday that the northern countryside of Daraa has been witnessing sit-ins by the displaced from villages and towns controlled by the regime forces. Reliable sources confirmed to the SOHR that hundreds of the displaced from the towns of Namer, Kharbat Ghazala and Al-Sheikh Meskeen staged sit-ins at the bridge located in Um Al-Mayazen town demanding return to their homes in the towns controlled by the regime forces; the release of the captives from their towns and from Daraa countryside from the prisons and detentions of the regime; and unraveling the whereases of the ongoing negotiations regarding Nasib Border Crossing and clarifying the negotiation process regarding the crossing between the Syrian and Jordanian territories. Sources confirmed that some of the protestors set up tents in the sit-in area, threatening to persist until their demands are met.

Pictures by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights show the open sit-in carried out by hundreds of displaced people from Namir, Khirbat Ghazala and Al-Sheikh Miskeen towns in the northern countryside of Daraa.

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