The Syrian authorities tried to ward off the threat of Arab League and Turkish sanctions by releasing hundreds of political prisoners they admitted were protesters and "did not have blood on their hands".
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announces that his country has decided to impose sanctions on the Syrian regime Photo: AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN
By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
6:17PM GMT 30 Nov 2011
The government gave no details of the release, which follows that of 1,700 prisoners in a deal with the Arab League earlier this month, but a judge separately freed nine human rights activists who had been jailed.
The move suggests that President Bashar al-Assad still has hopes of coming to terms with his neighbours while at the same time ending unrest in the country.
Although Turkey announced details of its own sanctions package yesterday, on top of those announced by the Arab League on Sunday, Syria's isolation is taking some time to bite.
The League has effectively postponed its own measures, saying they will not come into effect until Saturday. Despite a travel ban on senior officials, other transport links will be unaffected – the United Arab Emirates denied reports that Emirates and Etihad airlines, two of the region's most important carriers, were suspending flights to the country.
The Assad regime has responded to the unusually assertive posture of the League by staging new rallies of supporters and a propaganda offensive aimed at suggesting the West is financing and supplying a terrorist insurgency in Syria.
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One element of that backfired however when a video shown to a press conference by Walid Muallem, the foreign minister, and purporting to show atrocities by the armed opposition, was questioned by internet users and media in Lebanon.
At least two of the clips sewn together were found to have been film of incidents in Lebanon from previous years. In the first, a mutilated body is clearly that of an Egyptian man lynched in a well-known incident after being accused of rape.
In the second, a group of Lebanese men came forward to say they were the members of an "armed militia" filmed training. At least one was clearly identifiable from the "Syrian" film.
Turkey's sanctions will provide strong moral support to the opposition, and may have an effect on the business community which has so far failed to come out against Mr Assad. Individual businessmen as well as government officials will be targeted with a travel ban.
But it is hard to see whether any of the measures announced so far will have a crippling effect on Syria, which has long survived an underperforming economy. Turkey decided not to go ahead with a threatened block on electricity supplies to the north.
Neither the Arab League nor any other neighbour has put forward a plan for how Mr Assad might either stop the insurgency without standing down, which he refuses to do, or be forced out of office, other than by outside military intervention on a level which looks unlikely.
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Turkish head of another regional body, the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, meeting in Saudi Arabia, called for the Syrian crisis to be solved without international or military intervention, but added: "We have exhausted all our mechanisms and powers in our attempt to bridge the gap and end bloodshed."
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Xin mời các anh chị đọc thêm bài viết "Syrian ministers face Arab travel ban"By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, Associated Press – 3 hours ago tại link :
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