Pro- and Anti-Assad Protestors Hold Demo Outside Syrian Embassy

Syrian Kurds held a protest outside the Syrian embassy in Beirut’s Hamra thoroughfare on Sunday while a group of President Bashar Assad’s supporters demonstrated in the same location.

Security forces deployed in the area to prevent any clash and set up a human barricade between the two sides.

Last week, a Syrian Kurd opposition member was injured in a clash between protestors and the Syrian embassy’s security guards in Hamra, An Nahar daily reported.

Kurd activist Kadar Saleh Beeri told the newspaper that he was beaten by members of the embassy guards after he was returning from a demonstration held by around 50 Kurds outside the premises of the mission.

Four men holding sticks and guns “assaulted us” as protestors were dispersed and were returning from the protest, he said.