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Six arrested following protest at Syrian embassy in London

Six men were arrested after violence broke out during a protest at the Syrian embassy in London.


Police have arrested five people after they gained entry to the Syrian embassy during a protest Photo: @tweets4peace8

The Telegraph
03AM GMT 04 Feb 2012
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Around 150 demonstrators gathered outside the building at around 2am on Saturday morning amid reports of more than 200 people killed in a deadly barrage in the city of Homs.

Rallies broke out outside Syrian embassies around the world as news of the deaths spread, with demonstrators in Egypt, Greece, Kuwait and Germany forcing their way into the buildings and ransacking offices.

In London, windows on the first floor were smashed and pink paint was thrown on the building while protesters sang, danced, played drums and waved Syrian flags.

Five men were held after they gained entry to the embassy, in Belgrave Square. A sixth was arrested for assaulting a police officer.

It comes as the United Nations Security Council prepares to meet today to take up a much-negotiated resolution backing an Arab League peace plan for Syria.


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At least 5,500 people have died in the country since pro-democracy campaigners took to the streets last year protesting against President Bashar Assad's regime.

Human rights activists said on Friday night that Syrian forces had used tanks and machine guns to kill at least 200 people and wound hundreds in Homs, in what appeared to be the bloodiest episode since the uprising began.

Anass Toma, a Syrian MBA student, attended the protest at the Syrian embassy in response to the violence in Homs.

Speaking to BBC News, Mr Toma said: "We came to the embassy because there were 300 people killed in Syria today.

"People are angry. I'm worried about the situation back home. I've been in London two years but I'm Syrian, from Aleppo.

"We don't know what message the Syrian regime is giving out with this massacre today – given the UN Security Council vote ... we don't really understand what they're doing. But we must stop the bloodshed in Syria."

Ronan McNern, a supporter of the Occupy London movement, described the scenes in London and said it appeared paint had been thrown on to a door of the embassy.

He added: "The protesters are being held on the other side of the road from the embassy.

"There are 150 people surrounded by a ring of about 60 police officers, who are carrying truncheons. There are also about 12 police vans.

"The protesters are keeping their spirits up by singing, dancing and playing drums, and they seem to be free to leave the ring. Some of them are waving Syrian flags."

In Egypt around 50 protesters tore down the gate to the Syrian embassy in Cairo, ransacking the building and setting fire to the ground floor.

Police in Berlin also said that around 20 people had forced their way into the Syrian embassy in the German capital, damaging offices and spraying slogans on to the walls.

Moves towards a vote by the UN Security council comes after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke by telephone with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a bid to overcome Russian opposition to any statement that explicitly calls for regime change or military intervention in Syria.

Western powers have ruled out military action but want the world body to endorse an Arab League plan that calls on the president to hand power over to Syria's vice president.

According to a State Department spokesman, Mrs Clinton and Mr Lavrov agreed that American and Russian diplomats would continue work on a Syria resolution and were planning to meet for more talks over the weekend.

Russia's deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Moscow could not support the resolution in its current form, but expressed optimism that an agreement could be reached, state news agency RIA Novosti reported.

Earlier this week, Foreign Secretary William Hague made an impassioned plea for the UN to support moves to bring a peaceful resolution to the unrest.

At the security council in New York, he said the risk of civil war was intensifying and the threat to the stability of the region growing.

Mr Hague said: "With each day that passes, finding a way back from the brink will be harder and innocent lives will be needlessly and wrongfully lost, deaths which this council could help to avert by acting in a united manner."

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madhouse
22 minutes ago
What the Heck do this People do to this Country I always say go Home and Demonstred there, this People come to ouer Country whe give them Housing,Food and a better live Style, I find that wrong.
This People damage Houses and Benefit because the have to live, a Demostetion never goes peaceful and who picks the Bill up the British Taxpayer. No gratitude to the country who left the Door open to the could come in and have a better Life Style



lunatictheyare
46 minutes ago
Who cares Iran and Assad, Allah and Gang, North Korea, Russia, China and Hugo Chavez aprove of it. It is Moslem population control by the book of the Koran. Hate for Israel is number one and its reduction to ashes. This killing by Assad and Approved by Allah is just past time entertainment value. The big fish is the Jewish State next!



haphaestus
59 minutes ago
Oh no, the violence from thier countries isn't going to spill over into ours!,,,,,,,NOT

A Message from Winston Churchill
“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

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