Two protesters were killed Friday by gunfire police in Homs in central Syria, while many soldiers and members of the security services were deployed in the homes of protest against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Despite the crackdown - which killed at least 700 deaths and thousands of arrests since the beginning of the protest movement in mid-March, according to human rights organizations of human rights - the opposition had appealed mobilization on the "The Syrian Revolution 2011".
In the afternoon, the Information Minister, Adnan Mahmoud, announced a "national dialogue would be initiated in the coming days" in the country.
Fouad Rajab, 40, was hit by a bullet in the head when the security services opened fire to disperse a manifestation of Homs, told AFP an activist of Human Rights, Nawar al-Omar.
A second protester was killed by gunfire in Homs, but the activist was not able to provide his identity.
According Louaï Hussein, a writer and opponent of President Assad had nevertheless instructed police not to open fire on demonstrators.
An adviser to the president, "Bouthaina Shaaban, told me during a telephone conversation that presidential orders had been given strict not to open fire on the demonstrators," said Mr.Hussein on his Facebook page.
Other events were attended by thousands of people Deraa (south), Qamishli, and Derbassyié Amouda (north-east), WQAS near Damascus and Hama 210 km north of the capital.
"Security forces fire into the air with automatic weapons to disperse to Deraa thousands of protesters," said one activist told AFP in this city south, where the protest movement was born in mid- March.
A Qamichli with a Kurdish majority, nearly 3,000 people demonstrated after prayers, according to another activist."With our soul and our blood we sacrifice ourselves for Deraa," chanted the demonstrators, according to a video posted on YouTube.
The protesters also wore a huge Syrian flag on which was written + + Azadi ("freedom" in Kurdish), depending on the video.
In addition, hundreds of people demonstrated in Jdaidet-Artouz, 11 km south of Damascus, "calling for the downfall of the regime," said another activist.
A thousand protesters also marched in WQAS, near the capital, where "significant reinforcements came," according to activists.
In the city of Hama, the police dispersed several demonstrations with batons, tear gas and water cannon.One of the demonstrations took place outside the headquarters of the town hall, where demonstrators tore the portrait of President Bashar al-Assad before being dispersed by Syrian forces, as an activist.
In all outbreaks of the dispute, "there is a large deployment of officers of the security forces," said one activist told AFP.
Asked in the morning, an activist from the coastal city of Banias (North West) stated that "more than 2,000 soldiers" were deployed in the square where people were demonstrating.
But the information minister said in the afternoon as the army began to withdraw from this coastal town, where she had entered Saturday.
According militants, arrests were also continuing across the country, Deir Ezzor (is) in Lattakia (northwest) and to Qamichli Deraa. Wednesday, 19 civilians had been killed by security forces in Dera and Homs, according to an NGO.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said he was "extremely concerned" by reports of NGOs have reported 700 to 850 deaths among the demonstrators and called on Damascus to stop trying to "silence opponents.
The British Foreign Ministry announced it had summoned the ambassador of Syria, threatening to "further sanctions".And Australia said it would tighten its financial sanctions against Damascus.
The head of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton, had not ruled yesterday that the sanctions taken against 13 members of the scheme can be extended to President Assad.
The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, however, warned against foreign intervention, calling on the Syrian opposition not to repeat the "Libyan scenario," according to Russian news agencies.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on his part that he was "too early" to say whether President Assad had to go.
