Syrian regime is unwilling to settle for anything less than total obedience and the fear of social media runs deep into its psyche. Opinion | Faysal Mohamad
On August 11, while delivering his first address to the newly ‘elected’ Syrian parliament, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was forced to pause and remain seated for a few moments before being able to resume his speech. later offered by the Syrian Arab News Agency, or SANA – the most widely read source of state news in the country – was that he experienced a brief drop in blood pressure.
In the spring of 2011, I was a lecturer at the Arab International University, incidentally located 65 km north of the city of Dar’aa, the birthplace of the uprising. As dissidents blacklisted by the government, we saved ourselves the degrading experience of taking part in a pro-Assad rally that contradicted our longing for a free and democratic Syria.
Peaceful protests were quickly met with brute force by elements of the notorious Air Force Security, assisted by pro-regime informants from within the students ranks. Many demonstrators ran away towards campus buildings as they were chased in broad daylight by security agents yielding weapons.
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