BEIRUT (AP) —A Syrian rights activist says security forces have opened fire to disperse students protesting at Damascus University, killing one person.
Ammar Qurabi, head of Syria’s National Organization for Human Rights, says one student took a bullet as he was demonstrating Monday along with a few hundred students calling for freedoms.
He says the student hails from the southern province of Daraa, where anti-government protests that later spread nationwide erupted on March 18.
The report could not be confirmed by The Associated Press due to severe restrictions Syria has placed on journalists.
More than 170 people have been killed since March 18, according to human rights groups.
