Damascus, Dec 17(ANI): Syrian security forces are threatening families of anti-government protesters and holding them as hostages, activists based in the country's Deraa province have said.yrian citizens said security forces are targeting families of those people, who are in their wanted list.
"They sent for me, saying they would kill my brother if I didn't hand myself in," a man, who identified himself as Abu Mahmoud, said.
He added that his name had appeared on the "wanted" list issued to troops.ctivists and refugees said the Syrian regime has devised new tactics to quell protests, like tanks being deployed to crush the general strike.
"There are barriers every hundred or two hundred metres in Deraa as checkpoints. Every day they get a new list of names that are wanted by the regime. We have soldiers who are contributing to our cause, sometimes for free, sometimes for money, who give us the lists," The Telegraph quoted a resident, as saying on Skype.
Another man said the security forces told his father that they wanted to "pluck their eyes and cut their bodies into pieces".
The reports conform to Human Rights Watch allegations, which pointed out that Syrian security forces had issued "shoot-to-kill" orders for protestors and sanctioned torture of detainees.
Deraa was the seedbed of protests against President Bashar-al Assad after demonstrations over the arrest of a group of teenagers for scrawling anti-regime graffiti transformed into a major uprising across the country. (ANI)
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