Four people were killed in the protest hub of Homs in central Syria and two demonstrators were killed in Talbisseh, north of the city, by security forces Wednesday, said the Local Coordination Committees which groups activists on the ground.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that a 28-year-old woman who was incarcerated a week ago died under torture in the city of Khan Sheikhoun on Wednesday.
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, one person who was maimed at a funeral a fortnight ago also died.
Military and security forces incarcerated 27 people in the Harasta suburb of Damascus Wednesday morning, after sealing off the district and arresting 120 people the previous day, the Observatory added.
The industrial district, 10 kilometers northeast of Damascus, has been the scene of protests since anti-regime protests broke out in mid-March.
Rallies erupted Tuesday night in the Damascus suburbs of Douma, Daraya, Kanaker, Zabadani, Madaya and Kisweh, witnesses said.
European nations and the United States pressed Wednesday for U.N. sanctions against Syria's
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and his entourage for their deadly crackdown on opposition protests.