(Zaman Al Wasl)- Facebook has lifted block imposed on activists’ videos documenting the protests of southern Sweida city over copyright claims to pro-regime media outlets.
Ahmad Primo, director of the Verify Platform (Ta’kkad), said that the Facebook company responded to the report he made about the falsehood of the claim of copyright ownership of the production company Yalla Media over the videos documenting the anti-Regime demonstrations that have sprung out recently in the city of endosperm. As a first step, Facebook has lifted the ban on three video clips.
This new procedure opened up the possibility of sharing videos that were previously deleted shortly after their posting. While this first step is highly important, Facebook is expected to take more steps in preventing its program from being exploited by any political party or any other purposes working against its principles of freedom of expression.
A group of Syrian activists residing in Britain are working to legally pursue the Yalla Media directors and workers in order to hold them accountable for keeping the revolution manifestation videos from the public eye. The Activists prefer not to provide further details for fear of affecting the course of the legal prosecution negatively and allowing the guilty to escape justice.
On Tuesday, security forces dispersed an anti-government demonstration by around 100 people who had gathered in Sweida city to protest against deteriorating living conditions ahead of the U.S. Caesar sanctions, activists said Monday.
Security forces have arrested at least six activists who organised the peaceful rally in the main stronghold of Druze community near the Occupied Golan Heights, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.
Anti-government demonstrations came as a result of the collapsing currency that caused a hysterical hike in food prices.
The Syrian regime has blamed Western sanctions for the economic difficulties, which have forced prices up and left many struggling to afford food.
Sweida has been spared the same scale of devastating violence, fighting and mass detainment that has rocked communities elsewhere in the country over the course of Syria's nine-year war.
The deepening economic crisis has seen the Syrian pound drop to over 3,000 to the dollar, compared with 45 pounds at the beginning of the war.
The Syrian war began in early 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on protesters with unexpected ferocity, which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths and the displacement of millions
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