Riots in Syrian jail

hama - Syrian government forces have a prison in the western city of Hama Monday surrounded and firing tear gas. The siege is a response to a prison riot in which detainees have captured several guards.

According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights rebel prisoners against a plan to be transferred to a military prison in Sednaya, north of Damascus. sitting in Hama both political and Islamist prisoners. They demand their rights, including the right to a trial.

Insurgents near Hama would have agreed to take government forces under attack and break the siege,, '.

State media deny that something is going on in the prison.