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The Role of Health Professionals in Bush-Era Torture

On Wednesday, just after the Senate Armed Services Committee released its report on the Bush Administration’s torture program, Firedoglake hosted a live online chat with Nathaniel Raymond, Director of PHR’s Campaign Against Torture. Firedoglake’s Christy Hardin Smith introduced the online discussion, saying:
As the details spill out, again and again two names keep appearing — James Mitchell and [...]

SASC Report Shows Psychologists Rationalized Bush Administration’s Torture Program

Last night, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released a report, developed over two years, detailing the origins and implementation of the Bush Administration’s torture program (PDF, 15 MB). The SASC report is the latest and most comprehensive account of the Bush Administration’s regime of torture and the central role health professionals played. Senator Carl [...]

General Taguba at Harvard Law School

On April 14, Major General Antonio M. Taguba (USA, Ret.), the commander of the official 2004 US Army investigation into the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse scandal, made a rare public appearance at Harvard Law School to give a lecture sponsored by the Harvard Human Rights Program, the Human Rights Advocates at Harvard Law, and Physicians [...]

The Challenge of Accountability: A Conversation with Major General Antonio Taguba

The Challenge of Accountability: A Conversation with Major General Antonio Taguba

Please join Physicians for Human Rights and Retired US Army Major General Antonio Mario Taguba this Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 4:00-6:15 PM for an exciting afternoon of discussion, debate and dialogue on torture by US forces in the war against terror — and how we can hold accountable those who committed these heinous crimes. The discussion will be [...]

Further Evidence of Medical Monitoring of CIA Torture

Mark Danner, an attorney and journalist, revealed in yesterday’s New York Review of Books never-before-seen sections of a confidential International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) report detailing the treatment of detainees held at the CIA “black site” interrogation facilities. Among the many disturbing facts in Danner’s article, the ICRC report contains critical new [...]

Major General Antonio Taguba Supports Accountability

Last week Major General Antonio Taguba (US Army, Ret.) joined PHR and a bipartisan group of civil society groups and national security experts, including Judge William Sessions, the former Director of the FBI, in calling for a national commission to investigate the torture of detainees by US personnel.
General Taguba, the head of the US Army’s [...]

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