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John Bradshaw on
January 21, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged appendix m, army field manual, barack obama, break them down, broken laws broken lives, detainees, executive order, international law, interrogation techniques, isolation, leave no marks, loopholes, matthew alexander, new york times, sensory deprivation, us law
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By
Jonathan Hutson on
November 25, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Custody, Forensic, Torture
| Tagged amnesty international, detention, iran, Kahrizak, Pourandarjani, prisoners, washington post
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By
Ben Greenberg on
September 25, 2009
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.
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged cia, data collection, ethical violations, human experimentation, inspector general, john bradshaw, physicians, presstv, psychologists, waterboarding
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By
Richard Sollom on
September 11, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Colleagues at Risk, Conflict, General Human Rights, Torture, Video
| Tagged bilateral agreement, Burma, child soldiers, china, Chris Beyrer, commission of inquiry, EJE, execution, Kokang, LTTE, Mahinda Rajapaksa, murder, Myanmar, POW, rape, Richard Sollom, sla, slavery, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Army, Tamil Tigers, Tamils, Than Shwe, Torture, United Nations Security Council, washington post, Yunnan Province
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By
Richard Sollom on
August 31, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Conflict, General Human Rights, Health, Torture
| Tagged Burma, conscription of child soldiers, crimes against humanity, elections, ethnic minorities, forced displacement, GBV, murder, Myanmar, new york times, rape, refugees, Senator Jim Webb, slave labor, Torture
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By
Ben Greenberg on
August 31, 2009
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’ [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged allen keller, bellevue/nyu program for survivors of torture, central intelligence agency, cia, confinement, guns, human experimentation, inspector general, interrogation, medical ethics, mock executions, physicians, power drills, psychologists, scott allen, steven reisner, threats, vincent iacopino, walling, waterboarding
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By
Frank Donaghue on
August 25, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Custody, Torture
| Tagged afghanistan, barack obama, break them down, broken laws broken lives, central intelligence agency, cia, dasht-e-leili, department of justice, eric holder, inspector general, leave no marks
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By
Ben Greenberg on
July 13, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Conflict, Custody, Forensic, General Human Rights, News Coverage, Torture, Video
| Tagged abdul rashid dostum, accountability, afghanistan, AfghanMassGrave.org, anderson cooper, attorney general, barack obama, central intelligence agency, cia, cnn, commission of inquiry, dasht-e-leili, eric holder, ghana, nathaniel raymond, prosecution, sheberghan, Susannah Sirkin, taliban, war crimes, white house
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By
Jared Voss on
July 9, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Podcast, Torture
| Tagged broken laws broken lives, bush administration, central intelligence agency, cia, guantanamo bay, radio coverage, Thom Hartmann, Torture
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By
Nathaniel Raymond on
June 29, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged broken laws broken lives, radio coverage, Thom Hartmann, Torture
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