<p>The deaths were reported on Saturday by two Syrian human rights organisations, one of them also saying that hundreds of people were arrested by security forces in Damascus. <br /><br />“Nineteen martyrs fell on Friday,” the National Organisation for Human Rights said in a statement received by AFP in Nicosia.<br /><br />“The Syrian authorities had decided to go ahead and kill protesters during the day marked by demonstrations dubbed ‘Your silence is killing us’,” it said.</p>
<p>The deaths were reported on Saturday by two Syrian human rights organisations, one of them also saying that hundreds of people were arrested by security forces in Damascus. <br /><br />“Nineteen martyrs fell on Friday,” the National Organisation for Human Rights said in a statement received by AFP in Nicosia.<br /><br />“The Syrian authorities had decided to go ahead and kill protesters during the day marked by demonstrations dubbed ‘Your silence is killing us’,” it said.</p>