Torture

Close Gitmo and Close the Torture Loopholes

In today’s New York Times, former Air Force interrogator Matthew Alexander highlights a problem that most Americans have missed: The Obama Administration has not fully outlawed abusive interrogation techniques. Not only must we close Guantanamo Bay, we must close the loopholes that allow torture.
The President’s Executive Order a year ago which established the [...]

Rights Groups Call for Independent Autopsy of Iranian Doctor Who Treated Tortured Prisoners

Physicians for Human Rights, Amnesty International, and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran sent a letter to Iranian authorities on November 25 to ask for a full, transparent and independent investigation into the suspicious death of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, a physician who had examined prisoners wounded and killed during the 2009 Iranian election [...]

Video: Health Professionals Involved Throughout CIA Interrogations

Washington Director, John Bradshaw, was recently interviewed by PressTV about PHR’s new report, Aiding Torture: Health Professionals’ Ethics and Human Rights Violations Demonstrated in the May 2004 CIA Inspector General’s Report.

Sri Lankan Government Coaching Burmese Junta?

Remember the calamitous end to Sri Lanka’s 26-year-long civil war back in May?  Some 16,700 non-combatants were wounded and several thousand more were killed during the final onslaught. Fighting between the 150,000-strong Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the 7,000-strong Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) armed forces resulted in 300,000 displaced minority Tamils.
Although both sides [...]

Change the Debate on Burma

Senator Jim Webb recently opined in the New York Times that we can’t afford to ignore Myanmar (the official name of Burma since 1989). The senior Democratic senator from Virginia rightly calls for increased engagement with Burma, but for all the wrong reasons. Without knowing better, one could read the Senator’s piece and believe [...]

New Report: Aiding Torture

A team of PHR doctors authored the new white paper, “Aiding Torture: Health Professionals’ Ethics and Human Rights Violations Demonstrated in the May 2004 Inspector General’s Report.”
The report details how the CIA relied on medical expertise to rationalize and carry out abusive and unlawful interrogations. It also refers to aggregate collection of data on detainees’ [...]

A Prosecutor Will Examine CIA Torture Cases, Thanks to You

Thousands of supporters like you have called for the Obama Administration to investigate torture and other detainee abuses. Our voices have been heard.
Yesterday, the Obama Administration took actions that demonstrate a commitment to ending detainee abuse and beginning a process to hold accountable those responsible for the torture regime.
Attorney General Holder’s decision to appoint a [...]

President Obama: “There are responsibilities that all nations have, even in war”

Embedded video from CNN Video
In an interview today with Anderson Cooper, President Obama announced that he has ordered his national security team to collect all the facts in the Dasht-e-Leili massacre and apparent US cover-up — a move that Deputy Director Susannah Sirkin has praised in a statement earlier today.
President Obama’s comments differ from statements made by [...]

Podcast: Broken Laws, Broken Lives Discussed on Thom Hartmann Show

On June 29, Thom Hartmann, a national progressive talk show host, spent a captivating half-hour discussing the United States’ torture policies under President George W. Bush. A good portion of that segment focused on PHR’s “extaordinary report” Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact, from which he read [...]

Broken Laws, Broken Lives Discussed on Thom Hartmann Show

Thom Hartmann, a national progressive talk show host, today featured on his show a discussion of PHR’s report Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel and Its Impact. A transcript of the feature is expected to be available.
Mr. Hartmann spent several minutes quoting from various areas of the report, and commenting [...]

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