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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. We're recording this at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 13th of December.

Tens of thousands of Syrians take to the streets after Friday prayers to celebrate the end of 50 years of rule by the Assad family.

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Muslims in Syria have been celebrating their first Friday prayers free of the dictator Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown at the weekend.

The authorities called on people to take to the streets to mark the victory of the revolution, as they called it, and many thousands did so.

All the people who are interested, who are occupied or filled in the public sphere before,

come back to Syria, come back to Damascus now.

Now, we need everybody to come back.

We need all the energy, all the powers,

to fill the space, to fill the gap.

Because the future is for us, if we manage to build it.

This is a morning of freedom.

This is finally Syria.

Thank God. We have seen morning of freedom. This is finally Syria. Thank God.

We have seen times of injustice.

All our youth is gone.

Our correspondent in Damascus, Lina Sinjap, was there.

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