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Legal Opinion Needed? Consult a Psychologist

The newly released report by the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR report) shows not only that John Yoo and Jay Bybee created disgracefully flawed legal analysis but also that they tried to justify that reasoning by using bad science. As PHR has previously reported, the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) exploited [...]

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 [...]

Evidence in US Government Documents Spurs Spanish Torture Investigation

Judge Baltasar Garzón, an investigating magistrate at the National Court in Madrid, Spain, has announced that he will investigate the US torture program at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Judge Baltasar Garzón will probe the “perpetrators, the instigators, the necessary collaborators and accomplices” to crimes of torture at the prison at the US naval base in southern Cuba, [...]

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 [...]

Vandeveld’s Declaration on Behalf of Guantánamo Detainee Mohammed Jawad

Last week on January 13, 2009, former military prosecutor Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld submitted a declaration  in US federal court on behalf of Mohammed Jawad’s habeas corpus petition, noting “reliable evidence that he was badly mistreated by U.S. authorities both in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo, and he has suffered, and continues to suffer, great psychological [...]

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