Damascus (Reuters) - Muslim Brotherhood called Syrians get off the streets before the Friday prayer and to help the besieged city of Deraa, where a group of dead civilian armed attack said rights supported by the reservoir rose 50.
It was the first time that the brotherhood, ruthlessly crushed with movements secular leftists under the rule of the late President Hafez Al-Assad, had called the protest in Syria since the pro-democracy demonstrations against the son Assad, President Bashar al-Assadbroke six weeks ago.
A statement by the brotherhood, sent to Reuters, through his leadership in exile, Thursday, said: "do not leave the scheme lay siege to your countrymen." Singing with one voice for freedom and dignity. Don't let the tyrant to enslave you. God is great. ?
The events attracted a cross-section of Syrian society, which was under the regime of the Ba'ath party for 48 years. The young Assad kept the political system autocratic, he inherited in 2000, whereas the family extended its control over the faltering economy of the Syria.
The brotherhood said accusations by authorities that Islamists were behind unrest were aimed to foment civil war and to undermine the requirements at the national level for political freedoms and put an end to corruption.
But Friday, the Muslim day of rest and prayer, was the main opportunity for demonstrators to gather, challenging the authorities repeated warnings do step to demonstrate.
Security forces shot dead at least 120 demonstrators last Friday, said Syrian organization of the Sawasiah human rights, in the more great Syria demonstrations has seen since the democratic uprising broke out on March 18 in Deraa, with pro-democracy demonstrations spread to regions through the rest of the Syria.
Three days later the fourth mechanized Division, under the control of the Maher brother Assad stormed Deraa, doing their sound echoing attack of 1982 of the father on the town of Hama to crush a revolt led by the Muslim Brotherhoodkilling anywhere between 10,000 and 30,000 people.
Assad has tightened the grip of security in and around Damascus Thursday, with the various forces and the secret police units of security deployment in the cities nearby, Erbin and Tel and in the district of Damascus of Barzeh and the suburbs of the State Duma and Darayarights activists and witnesses said.
The Syrian human rights observatory, said that Adraa attack killed at least 50 civilians, with essential supplies in the town of running Act.
The offensive has helped intensify criticism against Assad to the West, which took steps to rehabilitate the Syrian leader over the past three years. The United States, said that it is considering tightening the sanctions.
Ambassadors of the Governments of the European Union in Brussels to meet Friday to discuss the possibility of imposing sanctions against the Syria plan, which could include asset freezes and travel of senior officials.
An EU diplomat said it is perhaps too early for the block to make a binding decision Friday, but Governments could send a message of signalling sanctions were on the table.
"I expect a political signal to the sanctions, but perhaps not a decision yet", said the diplomat.
EU against the Syria other measures could include the freezing of financial aid, which amounts to 43 million euros ($64 million) a year.
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