LEBANON: Hundreds of Lebanese and expatriate Syrians in Tripoli protest against President Bashar al-Assad, voicing support for the protest movement in Syria

Record ID: 279068

  • Title: LEBANON: Hundreds of Lebanese and expatriate Syrians in Tripoli protest against President Bashar al-Assad, voicing support for the protest movement in Syria
  • Date: 30th July 2011
  • Summary: TRIPOLI, LEBANON (JULY 29, 2011) (REUTERS) WIDE OF THE PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING AND CARRYING FLAGS OF THE SUNNI ISLAMIST GROUP HIZBUT TAHRIR PROTESTERS CHANTING THE PEOPLE WANT TO OVERTHROW THE REGIME FLAGS OF HIZBUT TAHRIR PROTESTER SAYING (Arabic): ''We don't want to overthrow the regime, we want to execute Bashar.'' MORE OF THE PROTEST PROTESTERS MAR
  • Embargoed: 14th August 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Lebanon, Lebanon
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVABBS6H3PNJ6ODTYHEHQ0TYDN3I
  • Story Text: Hundreds of Lebanese and Syrian nationals living in Lebanon, many of them students, took to the streets of the northern city of Tripoli on Friday (July 29) after prayers, to denounce the Syrian government's crackdown on its own protesters.
    Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has been trying to stop the protests that swept the country since March with a violent crackdown in many cities and villages.
    The protesters in Tripoli's Al Qibbeh district marched through the streets after prayers carrying banners denouncing Assad and supporting the protest movement.
    One man shouted, ''We don't want the regime to fall now. We want to execute Assad,'' and hundreds chanted after him, ''We want to execute Assad.'' Tripoli is home to a Sunni majority and a small Alawite community and both have clashed at times when sectarian tensions are high. Assad is follower of the Alawite sect that has ruled Syria for decades.
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