BBC News - Syria unrest: Protesters call for international help
'Beating the wounded'
Homs has seen some of the largest protests of the uprising against the rule of President Assad. During the past week alone, as many as 29 people were killed in confrontations with the security services.
According to New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), Syrian security forces have also been forcibly removing patients from a hospital in the city and preventing doctors from reaching the wounded.
"When we tried to help the wounded who needed urgent medical care, the security forces pushed us back, saying these were criminals and rapists," one doctor told HRW.
"They were beating the wounded as they moved them out of the hospital."
The international community has urged the Syrian president to stop targeting civilians.
The government insists that it has a political reform programme in place, but opposition leaders say there can be no free and fair elections while the ruling Baath party is in power.
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