Damascus: The Syrian government has announced its military to stop firing on protesters and offering them greater freedoms and reforms, including possibly ending the emergency law that has been in place for more than four decades, presidential adviser said.
Presidential adviser Buthaina Shaaban has said protesters demands including political reforms are being under consideration.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has announced to release all arrested protesters.
She said the government would “study” the idea of scrapping the emergency law. Syria has been under the law since the Baath Party took power in a 1963, banning any opposition to its rule.
Anti-government protesters have been demanding the president end emergency law, curb Syria’s pervasive security apparatus, free political prisoners and allow freedom of expression.
The presidential adviser also said the government is drafting a law that would allow political parties, raise salaries for public servants and enact measures to fight unemployment.
Dozens of people have been killed in Daraa, a southern city that remains tense following nearly a week of clashes between security forces and anti-government demonstrators.
Human rights activists and witnesses say 15 people were killed in the city on Wednesday by police gunfire. Syria’s government had a different account of the violence. State-run media said four people were killed when an “armed gang” attacked a medical team.
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