Intense protests in southern Syria against dictator Bashar al-Assad have entered their second week, invoking memories of the Arab Spring demonstrations in the country in 2011.
Protestors gathered in Suwayda city on August 28 and blocked provincial roads. A day earlier, the demonstrators had welded shut the doors of a ruling party office in Melh town.
The protestors reportedly chanted "Long live Syria" and "Down with Bashar al-Assad".
The mass demonstration has been sparked by rising fuel prices, and economic corruption and mismanagement.
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