Human rights abuses in Syria? (CNN) — Security forces surrounding the Rifaie Mosque in the Damascus suburb of Kafr Sousa fired tear gas early Saturday on thousands of worshipers as they ended their prayers and tried to leave the building, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC) reported. Many of the worshipers returned inside the mosque, where they chanted slogans calling for the fall of the regime, said the LCC, which organizes and documents anti-government protests. Later, the organization reported that security forces were making random arrests outside the mosque. In the restive city of Daraa, where the arrests in March of 15 teenagers for scrawling anti-government graffiti on…
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