The transitional government dissolves the parliament in Syria
The transitional government in Syria has decided to revoke the country's constitution and to dissolve the parliament for three months, several media reports. Spokesperson Obaida Arnaout says a rights committee will review the constitution and then make changes.
The foundation that is now being revoked is from 2012 and does not specify Islam as the state religion. The new government has previously announced that all religious communities will be allowed to operate in the country.
Arnaout also says that the transfer of power in the country will be carried out on Tuesday, when the new government will meet with ministers from al-Assad's overthrown government.
- Our priority is to preserve and protect institutions, he says.
Started the revolution - denies having written the slogans
Naief Abazid, who more than ten years ago is said to have written "It's your turn, Dr. Bashar al-Assad" on a wall in Daraa, has since often been singled out as the trigger behind the uprising in Syria. But that he would have written the fatal words was just a lie that was coerced under torture, Abazid told The Globe and Mail.
- Our history is already full of lies. We don't need more lies in our country.
Abazid, better known as the "graffiti kid", was 14 years old when he was abducted and tortured by Bashar al-Assad's secret police. The protests against the way he and his schoolmates were treated in March 2011 were rewritten as the "Day of Wrath" - a starting point for the conflict that recently led to the ouster of al-Assad.
Although he did not write the words on the wall, Abazid describes the feeling after the fall of the dictator as victory and joy.
- The one who ignited the revolution was the children, it was us, not the one who wrote.
The transitional government in Syria has decided to revoke the country's constitution and to dissolve the parliament for three months, several media reports. Spokesperson Obaida Arnaout says a rights committee will review the constitution and then make changes.
The foundation that is now being revoked is from 2012 and does not specify Islam as the state religion. The new government has previously announced that all religious communities will be allowed to operate in the country.
Arnaout also says that the transfer of power in the country will be carried out on Tuesday, when the new government will meet with ministers from al-Assad's overthrown government.
- Our priority is to preserve and protect institutions, he says.
Started the revolution - denies having written the slogans
Naief Abazid, who more than ten years ago is said to have written "It's your turn, Dr. Bashar al-Assad" on a wall in Daraa, has since often been singled out as the trigger behind the uprising in Syria. But that he would have written the fatal words was just a lie that was coerced under torture, Abazid told The Globe and Mail.
- Our history is already full of lies. We don't need more lies in our country.
Abazid, better known as the "graffiti kid", was 14 years old when he was abducted and tortured by Bashar al-Assad's secret police. The protests against the way he and his schoolmates were treated in March 2011 were rewritten as the "Day of Wrath" - a starting point for the conflict that recently led to the ouster of al-Assad.
Although he did not write the words on the wall, Abazid describes the feeling after the fall of the dictator as victory and joy.
- The one who ignited the revolution was the children, it was us, not the one who wrote.
Author: Not Islamists that scare the most
The Syrian writer and journalist Samar Yazbek is not afraid of Syria becoming an Islamist state after the rebel group HTS took over power in the country. She worries more about the Israeli bombings, which hit the country in a very sensitive situation, she tells SvD.
Yazbek believes that the biggest problem is and has been that other countries are exploiting Syria for their own interests.
- The outside world has not cared about Syrians who have died in the last 15 years [...] For the Americans it was about oil, for the Russians it was about gas. And Erdogan has the Kurdish question, she says.
The Syrian writer and journalist Samar Yazbek is not afraid of Syria becoming an Islamist state after the rebel group HTS took over power in the country. She worries more about the Israeli bombings, which hit the country in a very sensitive situation, she tells SvD.
Yazbek believes that the biggest problem is and has been that other countries are exploiting Syria for their own interests.
- The outside world has not cared about Syrians who have died in the last 15 years [...] For the Americans it was about oil, for the Russians it was about gas. And Erdogan has the Kurdish question, she says.
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