Syria: some 12 organizations call for lifting the state of emergency

Some 12 political and cultural movements and of the civil society called on the Syrian authorities yesterday to lift the state of emergency, applied since the Baath party assumed power in 1963.

In a statement the movements announced "the state of emergency has been perpetuated in the country since four decades obstruct the opportunities towards the future. The political, and economic and media life are dedicated to perpetuate the hegemony of the authority and its departments on the details of daily life of citizens."

The statement added:" Several regime officials announced emerging the state of emergency, but detention, the detention acts in Aleppo, Daraya, Damascus and the trials before the courts of the state security and the military trials and the repeated summons for several social and political activists confirm and say the opposite."