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MAFRAQ, Jordan - When the wounded protester arrived at the National Hospital in Homs, Syria, a surgeon ordered an immediate ultrasound. As the injured man was wheeled past a police captain, the officer banged the butt of his gun on the patient's knee and said he didn't deserve treatment — and wheeled him out again."I looked at the doctor in the room, and he was not even daring to look at the officer," the surgeon said. The story is one of many recounted to Amnesty International, which has been taking videotaped testimony from doctors.

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