The New York based rights group said the "inhumane" and "illegal" blocking of access to medical treatment occurred in the southern town of Daraa, the centre of a wave of protests against
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"Barring people from needed medical care causes grave suffering and perhaps irreparable harm," said Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director.
"To deprive maimed people of critical and perhaps life-saving medical treatment is both inhumane and illegal."
She urged Syrian authorities to allow injured protesters unimpeded access to medical treatment and to stop using unjustified lethal force against anti-government protesters.
The rights group said it had interviewed doctors as well as injured protesters and their relatives in Daraa and Harasta and the town of Douma.
It said a total of 28 people were killed in the three towns on Friday when security forces fired on protesters.
"Syria?s leaders talk about political reform, but they meet their people?s legitimate demands for reform with bullets," said Whitson.
Witnesses in Daraa said several thousand protesters marching after the weekly Mohammedan main prayers on Friday carrying olive branches.
When they approached a roadblock manned by "several thousand" security force members they were ordered to halt, the witnesses said.
Security forces then fired teargas and live rounds, while snipers on roofs opened fire.
HRW quoted witnesses as saying the security forces did not allow ambulances to approach the road to pick up the maimed, and kept shooting when other protesters tried to carry the maimed away.