The secret police raided houses overnight near Damascus, said Sunday human rights activists, while growing popular opposition to authoritarian President Bashar Assad after a bloody crackdown on protesters in favor of democracy. Security agents in civilian clothes carrying assault rifles entered the homes of Harasta suburb shortly after midnight, at dawn on Sunday, arresting activists from the area, known as Ghouta, or old garden district of the capital .
Opponents of the regime said the repression practiced against demonstrators and the arrests carried out show that the recent repeal of the Emergency Law of 1963 "was an empty gesture." The security forces and gunmen loyal to Asad killed at least 112 people in the past two days when they fired on the demonstrations to demand political freedoms and an end to corruption on Friday and the funeral of the victims crowded the day after .
The attacks were the bloodiest, and the demonstrations were the largest since the protests began in the southern city of Dera in the strategic plateau Hauran near the Jordanian border, five weeks ago. "Bashar Assad, traitor!" Coward. Take your troops to the Golan, "protesters chanted on Saturday, denouncing the Syrian president for ordering his forces to attack its own people instead of liberating the Golan Heights, where the border with Israel remained at peace since a cease the fire of 1974.
Assad lifted a state of emergency this week, in force since the Baath Party seized power 48 years ago, in an attempt to reduce criticism of the protesters and the international community about the use of lethal force against civilians. 
Opponents of the regime said the repression practiced against demonstrators and the arrests carried out show that the recent repeal of the Emergency Law of 1963 "was an empty gesture." The security forces and gunmen loyal to Asad killed at least 112 people in the past two days when they fired on the demonstrations to demand political freedoms and an end to corruption on Friday and the funeral of the victims crowded the day after .
The attacks were the bloodiest, and the demonstrations were the largest since the protests began in the southern city of Dera in the strategic plateau Hauran near the Jordanian border, five weeks ago. "Bashar Assad, traitor!" Coward. Take your troops to the Golan, "protesters chanted on Saturday, denouncing the Syrian president for ordering his forces to attack its own people instead of liberating the Golan Heights, where the border with Israel remained at peace since a cease the fire of 1974.
Assad lifted a state of emergency this week, in force since the Baath Party seized power 48 years ago, in an attempt to reduce criticism of the protesters and the international community about the use of lethal force against civilians.
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