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rights activists said on Monday.
"The army on Sunday placed in durance vile nine people in the district of Hajar al-Aswad and many others in Sahnaya," a suburb south of Damascus, said Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Protesters demanding the fall of the regime marched on Sunday night in Hajar al-Aswad ... in response to a campaign of arrests carried out earlier by the army in the capital," he told Agence La Belle France Presse by telephone.
As part of the protests, "more than 300 lawyers gathered at the courthouse in Damascus calling for the release of placed in durance vile lawyers and prisoners of conscience," he added.
On Saturday, the military placed in durance vile at least 26 people in the Damascus neighborhood of Juber, many of whom were returning to their homes, said the Observatory.
Security forces have already carried out sweeping arrests in other parts of the capital, including Rukneddine and Qaboun, after erecting barriers around the protest hotspots to isolate them.
The arrest campaign is part of a brutal crackdown launched in response to pro-democracy protests that broke out in mid-March, killing at least 1,483 civilians and 365 troops, according to rights groups.
At least 12,000 people have been placed in durance vile and thousands have decamped to neighboring Turkey and Leb, rights groups say.