In Syria today, wounded patients and doctors are pursued, and risk torture and arrest at the hands of the security services. Medicine is being used as a weapon of persecution.
Marie-Pierre Allié, MSF president, on the Syrian regime’s campaign of unrelenting repression against people wounded in demonstrations and the medical workers trying to treat them.

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