A/HRC/25/65 support of demonstrators and ill treated. Upon release, the Military Services Administration discharged them from duty. 23. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies have forcibly disappeared medical personnel providing treatment to perceived opposition supporters. From June 2011 until early 2012, Government security services repeatedly raided Bab Sbaa National Hospital in Homs, arresting doctors and nurses. One nurse explained that “at one point there were no more doctors left in the hospital.” During 2012, Government forces conducted a wave of arrests and extra-judicial executions of medical personnel working at Aleppo’s opposition affiliated Al Zarzou Hospital. In June 2012, Air Force Intelligence arrested three medical professionals at the hospital. Their burned bodies were found three days later. In July 2012, Dr. Nur Maktabi, a senior doctor at Al Zarzou Hospital went missing. In December 2012, he was found dead. A surgical assistant at Al Zarzou Hospital disappeared in October 2012. In mid-December 2012, the hospital’s anaesthetist disappeared at a Government-controlled checkpoint on his way home from Aleppo. 24. In early 2012, a doctor was arrested by soldiers of the 6th Division while treating patients at a state hospital in Idlib. In February 2012, Government forces arrested a doctor who treated FSA soldiers at Meydani Hospital in Latakia. On 28 June 2012, police in Damascus arrested, detained and subjected a nurse to psychological torture while interrogating her about patients she had treated. 25. Persons who received treatment in field hospitals often faced arrest and interrogation as to the names and locations of the hospitals and doctors who provided them with medical care. This has led to the arrest of doctors, as recorded in Dara’a in April and July 2011. In 2012 and 2013, doctors operating in field hospitals in Homs were allegedly declared wanted persons by Government security forces for providing support to the opposition. After a Government forces ground operation on Al Haffe, Latakia in June 2012, proGovernment militia fighters killed a doctor working at the field hospital operating in a mosque in Al Zankoufa village. 26. Persons delivering medical supplies have also been targeted. In March 2012, Government security forces reportedly listed a pharmacist who established first aid clinics in Idlib as a wanted terrorist and member of the armed opposition. In August 2012, officers at a Government checkpoint in Athman, Homs, stopped and searched an ambulance delivering medical supplies. The driver of the ambulance was taken to an intelligence service detention facility. Two weeks later, the National Hospital in Dara’a released his body, bearing extensive injuries consistent with severe torture. 27. Since the beginning of the conflict, at least 20 Syrian Arab Red Crescent volunteers have been killed, in some cases by sniper fire, while aiding the wounded or delivering relief supplies. Dozens others have been arrested and detained by the Government. On 7 September 2011, a Red Crescent ambulance evacuating wounded civilians was attacked next to a Government checkpoint in Al Hamediyah, Homs, killing one paramedic and injuring three others. In May 2012, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent unit in Azaz, Aleppo discontinued frontline work having suffered consistent sniper fire while attempting to evacuate the wounded. Also in May, the Red Crescent office in Azaz was shelled. In July 2012, a Red Crescent volunteer was killed by a sniper near Abdel Aziz mosque in Dara’a city’s Al Mahatta neighbourhood, while carrying out humanitarian duties. On 24 August 2012, a Government sniper shot and injured a Red Crescent nurse near Al Omari mosque in Dara’a. The sniper was located 200 metres away and would have seen his uniform and distinctive emblem. In early September 2012, a sniper in Al Midan neighbourhood in Aleppo city shot a medical emergency worker in full medical uniform and holding a medical bag bearing the Red Crescent logo. In March 2013, Government forces seized a Red Crescent ambulance in Jobar, Damascus. The ambulance personnel, all in uniform 59