Students of Damascus University have hung and thrown hundreds of copies of this statement by the “Free Students of Damascus Coalition” all around the university dorm city. The authorities’ reaction was that the regime’s armed thugs alongside members of the National Student Union rushed to denounce the statement once they received it. They even searched the trash cans in search of copies, and inspected bags of students and their books at the gates of the university campus. Additionally, students were interrogated to determine who was responsible for the distribution of the statement and who was supporting the coalition.
In light of the current events in our beloved county Syria, from besieging cities to the murder and abuse of the freedom-demanding, peaceful protesters by the Syrian security forces and armed thugs, as well as detaining tens of thousands of free people and the misinformation being spread by the governmental TV channels, we, the free students of Damascus University, demand the following in order to bring Syria to safe shores:
1. End of the siege on all besieged cities immediately.
2. Release of all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.
3. The right to peaceful protestes and the stopping security forces from dissolving protests and holding those accountable that were involved in opening fire on protesters.
4. Considering the situation of those students whose studies were affected by the siege on their cities and the rough conditions they had to go through, and making appropriate decisions.
5. Reaffirming our national unity among all sects and ethnicities.
6. We denounce foreign interference in our interior affairs
7. We want to know who shot the students of the 10th residential unit in Masaken Barzeh on 2011-06-08 and demand a public trial of the criminals
8. After all of the above is achieved, the atmosphere will then have become convenient for a comprehensive national dialogue among the different factions to reach the sought freedom.
The Free Students of Damascus Coalition
2011-06-12