DAMASCUS, (SANA)-Syrian Interior Ministry on Wednesday announced that while some families were submitting written requests to visit their relatives arrested for different crimes, a number of instigators tried to exploit this event to call for demonstration through uttering some provocative slogans in al-Marja Square.

"Owners of the shops at al-Maraja square, Damascus downtown, rushed and spontaneously confronted the instigators, chanting national slogans and rejecting any attempts to spread chaos and destabilize the homeland," General Mohammad Hassan al-Ali said in a statement.

He added "While we were receiving the citizens to deal with their complaints, some persons tried to utter slogans calling for demonstration, exploiting calls by some unfair mass media."

Mazen Eyon