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| Forced electoral participation in Damascus university campus |
| 2021-05-27 |
| [NPASYRIA] On Wednesday, the security forces of the Syrian government collected the students residing in the university campus of Damascus to film them and force them to participate in the presidential elections. The security forces supported by some Baathists collected the students in front of the dorms, inspected them and took their data to push them to collectively participate in the election taking place today. The students were transported to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in the early morning, where they were filmed as if they were coming to participate in the election of their own volition. "They knocked on the doors at 5 am and collected the students in the university campus," Reem al-As’ad, a pseudonym for a student at the Geography Department, told North Press. "They inspected the rooms to be sure that no one remains inside," she added. "After that, all the students were transported to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities where the government’s media was waiting for us which filmed us as if it is a spontaneous involvement by the students in the election," al-As’ad noted. The presidential elections in Syria began on Wednesday to determine the president of the republic for the next seven years, amid Syrians believing that the current president, Bashir al-Assad, does not face any serious competition from the candidates Abdullah Salloum Abdullah and Mahmoud Merei. |
| Posted by:Fred |