Support Urged for Syrian Doctors

Medical professionals in Syria have stood up in defense of human rights in their country, and for that stand, many have been arrested. Today the whereabouts of many of those doctors remain unknown. This alarming news is documented in a recent Amnesty International report on the situation of human rights in Syria. 1 According to the report, Syrian security forces in 1980 arrested, without charge or trial, 101 physicians, dentists, and veterinarians. The detentions followed a one-day strike on March 31, 1980, by three professional groups — doctors, lawyers, and engineers — to protest the lack of government response to their . . .