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Richard Sollom on
June 23, 2009
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I was recently interviewed about three Sri Lankan physicians who treated civilians and disseminated information on the health crisis in the conflict zone. You can listen to the four-minute interview, above.
When taking the Hippocratic Oath, a doctor makes a promise to his or her patients to “keep them from harm and injustice.” But the Government [...]
Posted in Colleagues at Risk, Conflict, General Human Rights, Health, Podcast
| Tagged Additional Protocol II, BBC, Central Investigating Division, CID, Darma Wanninayake, detention, geneva convention, Government of Sri Lanka, Hippocratic Oath, human rights, International Code of Medical Ethics, international humanitarian law, LTTE, Mahinda Samarasinghe, medical ethics, military, physicians, Prevention of Terrorism Act, PTA, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, The Times, University Teachers for Human Rights, WMA, world medical association
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By
Ben Greenberg on
April 30, 2009
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, [...]
Posted in Conflict, Torture
| Tagged agence france press, andrew sullivan, baltasar garzón, bush administration, cuba, department of justice, eric holder, geneva convention, guantanamo bay, health professionals, madrid, national court, non-partisan commision, psychologists, spain, us law
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By
Ben Greenberg on
April 26, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
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