DAMASCUS - More than 40 sacked judges held a sit-in demonstration on Sunday near the Rawda presidential palace in the Syrian capital demanding their rehiring, a human rights activist said. “About 45 judges gathered this morning near the Rawda palace in order to demand the canceling of the decree” issued by President Bashar Al-Assad last October, the activist told AFP on condition of anonymity.At the time, Assad fired 81 judges and increased wages for the judiciary as part of a programme of intended legal reforms.
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