Syria women march to demand jailed men be freed

AMMAN: Hundreds of Syrian women in a city that has witnessed massive arrests of his men marched along the main coastal road Syria on Wednesday to demand their release, the activists of Human Rights said.

Security forces, including secret police, stormed on Tuesday Baida, entering houses and arresting people under the age of 60 years, the militants said after unprecedented protests Bourgeois joined the contest 11-year rule of President Bashar al-Assad.

Baida women marched on the main road to Turkey, chanting slogans demanding the release of some 350 men, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights said.

"Women are Baida on the highway. They want their men back," the organization said, adding that women also marched in support in the nearby town of Banias Mediterranean.

In Aleppo city in northern Syria, about 150 students marched in protest demanding political freedom on the campus of the main university, human rights defenders in contact with the students said.

Baath Party irregular quickly dispersed the students who chanted "We sacrifice our blood and soul for you Deraa," in solidarity with the southern city where protests against the rule of the Baath Party began three and a half weeks ago.

With heavy police presence secret, the preachers of the state payroll giving sermons pro-Assad and the Sunni merchant class remain on the sidelines, major events have not spread to Damascus or Aleppo good, denying protesters critical mass seen in the riots that swept Tunisia and Egypt.