MICHELE NORRIS, Host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, Host: NPR's Kelly McEvers has been following the story from Beirut. She sent this report.</s>KELLY MCEVERS: Here's Wissam Tarif of the Avaaz Human Rights Groups.</s>WISSAM TARIF: He was leaving the mosque and he was shot in the head. It was kind of execution. They targeted him.</s>KELLY MCEVERS: Tarif says more people were killed in the eastern city of Deir al-Zout, in the suburbs of the capital, Damascus, and in a northern region near the border with Turkey. There, Tarif says, a pregnant woman was also shot by snipers.</s>WISSAM TARIF: She wasn't in a protest. She was leaving her home. And she was shot in the upper part of the body, which is chest and neck, and she died instantly.</s>KELLY MCEVERS: So, he says, did her baby. This video from the northern city of Homs was filmed by activists today. It shows men in uniform firing rifles towards protesters who yell "God is great."</s>KELLY MCEVERS: Kelly McEvers, NPR News, Beirut.
Defying growing international condemnation, Syrian security forces continue their bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters across the country. A U.S.-based human rights group says injured protesters are afraid to seek treatment in government-run hospitals, for fear of being detained and beaten.