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Report documents Syrian regime detaining, killing health workers

A new report from Physicians for Human Rights found that health care workers who provided care to injured protesters in the early days of the Syrian civil war were at increased risk of abuse by the government.
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Health care workers who treated injured anti-government protesters in Syria were more likely to be detained, forcibly disappeared or killed at the hands of the regime in the early years of the devastating conflict, a new report from Physicians for Human Rights found. 

The New York-based advocacy group described its latest report on the criminalization of medical care as an “unprecedented look at the Syrian government’s use of detention, torture, and disappearance both to punish health care workers and to reduce access to health services for peaceful protesters across the country.”

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