Homs is one of the cities where Assad's crackdown has been bloodiest The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that the number of deaths in Homs has increased to 20. People organised scores of demonstrations in Idleb province, and Syrian security forces soon launched a mass-arrest campaign.
This follows only one day after Syria approved the Arab Legues’s proposal to stop violence in the country, as foreign ministers deliberated in Cairo.
The Observatory confirmed the death toll, where firing is still reported to have been taking place in some neighborhoods.
It also said that Baba Amro has been under bombardment with heavy machine guns.
The Observatory said in a statement:  “In Idleb, Syrian forces broke down a demonstration after the thohor prayer on Thursday in Kafroma town, which rejected the Arab initiative and the promises made by embattled president, Bashar Al-Asad.”
It also added that the Syrian forces have arrested at least seven protestors.
Twenty-five people have been killed in Homs since Thursday.
Meanwhile, Airspace Intelligence’s first assistant announced his defection from the Syrian regime in a recorded tape.
The United Nations says more than 3,000 people have been killed in Assad’s crackdown on an uprising which erupted in March against his rule, inspired by revolutions which have toppled three Arab leaders this year.
Protesters in Syria have increasingly called for foreign intervention, although NATO has repeatedly said it has no plans for military action in Syria.