Protests have spread across Syria, challenging the rule of the Assad family, after their forces killed demonstrators in the south.
In the city of Deraa, gunfire and tear gas scattered a crowd of thousands after people lit a fire under a statue of late president Hafez al-Assad, whose son Bashar has ruled since his death in 2000.
Al Jazeera aired comments by a man who said security forces had killed 20 people on Friday in the nearby town of Sanamein.
In Hama, in the centre of the country, residents said people streamed through the streets after weekly prayers chanting "Freedom is ringing out!" - a slogan heard in uprisings sweeping the rest of the Arab world.
The same chant had earlier marked funeral processions in Deraa for some of the at least 37 people killed on Wednesday, when security agents attacked pro-democracy groups at a mosque.
In all, 44 deaths have been reported in the past week in Deraa.
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