33 employees from the city of Sweida have been wrongfully terminated on Sunday over political affiliations linked to Syrian revolution, Zaman Alwasl reporter said.
Opposition activists and human rights advocates in the southern city have denounced the regime tactics to repress people through their living since most are state employees.
Activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity over fear of reprisals, said the wrongful termination is a clear message to all Bashar Assad’s opponents especially from low-income earners and state employees to give up politics and to pay more concern to their living.
The main stronghold of Druze sect has witnessed several pro-democracy protests since the Syrian uprising erupted in March 2011. While the movement remains marginal, it is charged with symbolism, activists said.
Sweida is the birthplace of the historical Syrian figure, Sultan Pacha al-Atrash, who led the Syrian Revolution from 1925–1927.
Human rights activists said at least 16 detainees from Sweida province have been tortured to death with other 28 still arrested in Bashar Al Assad’s prisons.
Syria's three-year civil war has killed more than 150,000 people, a third of them civilians, and caused millions to flee.
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