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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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Richard Sollom on
August 26, 2009
Yesterday Physicians for Human Rights welcomed the release of four doctors in Sri Lanka whom police authorities had detained incommunicado for the past three months. After posting a king’s ransom of one million rupees ($8,800), each was allowed to return to Vavuniya, where they are confined until their November 9 hearing.
The doctors face trumped-up charges [...]
Posted in Colleagues at Risk, Conflict, General Human Rights, Health
| Tagged AAAS, Central Investigating Division, coerced confession, detention, geneva conventions, human rights, icrc, IDP, international humanitarian law, LTTE, medical ethics, physician, police, Prevention of Terrorism Act, satellite images, Sri Lanka, Tamil Tigers, united nations
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By
Richard Sollom on
June 23, 2009
World Vision Report - Doctors Detained [4:12m]:
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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
June 14, 2009
Jane Mayer has published a new article in the The New Yorker today on US torture policy. Mayer’s article centers around her interview with Leon Panetta, the new director of the Central Intelligence Agency, under the Obama administration. The article provides an overview of the Obama Administration’s approaches towards and retreats from pursuing accountability for [...]
Posted in Custody, News Coverage, Torture
| Tagged central intelligence agency, cia, jane mayer, leon panetta, medical ethics, nathaniel raymond
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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
| Tagged 9/11, abu ghraib, afghanistan, al qaeda, alberto mora, ama, american medical association, american psychological association, apa, appendix m, army field manual, bagram, barack obama, binyam mohamed, british high court, bruce jessen, carl levin, central intelligence agency, christy hardin smith, cia, daniel baumgartner, david irvine, department of defense, department of justice, diane feinstein, dod, doj, eric holder, firedoglake, geneva convention, gerald gary, gottfried bill, gtmo, how to break a terrorist, interrogation, iraq, isolation, ivan fredericks, james mitchell, japan, jay bybee, jerald ogrisseg, jim haynes, john durham, john yoo, joint personnel recovery agency, jpra, kenzaburo oe, leonard rubenstein, maher arar, major general antonio taguba, matt alexander, medical ethics, nathaniel raymond, npr, nuremberg, nurses, office of legal counsel, office of professional responsibility, olc, phillip zimbardo, physician complicity, physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, robert segal, sasc, senate armed services committee, sensory deprivation, sere tactics, sheldon whitehouse, sleep deprivation, special mission units, stanford prison experiment, steven bradbury, steven kleinman, taliban, us attorney, us congress, vietnam, waterboarding, white house, wwii
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By
Sara Greenberg on
April 22, 2009
We call on the President of the United States to establish an independent, non-partisan commission to examine and report publicly on torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees in the period since September 11, 2001. The commission, comparable in stature to the 9/11 Commission, should look into the facts and circumstances of such [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged 9/11 commission, afghanistan, american psychological association, apa, barack obama, bush administration, carl levin, commissiononaccountability.org, donald rumsfeld, dual loyalty, eric holder, guantanamo bay, icrc, international committee of the red cross, iraq, medical ethics, office of legal counsel, olc, pens, president of the united states, presidential task force on psychological ethics and national security, psychological research, sasc, senate armed services committee, us congress, us constitution
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By
Sara Greenberg on
April 7, 2009
On the eve of World Health Day and just weeks from the fifth anniversary of the Abu Ghraib revelations, a newly-released International Committee of the Red Cross report (PDF) provides additional evidence documenting violations of medical ethics in detainee abuse, emphasizing the need for a full investigation to restore the ethical foundations of the health [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged barack obama, department of defense, france, health professionals, icrc, international committee of the red cross, medical ethics, non-partisan commision, strasbourg
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By
Sara Greenberg on
March 4, 2009
I attended the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on a “commission of inquiry” to examine Bush Administration policies governing detainee treatment.
Committee Chairman Senator Leahy (D-VT) introduced the hearing, stating:
We must not be afraid to look at what we have done, to hold ourselves accountable as we do other nations who make mistakes. We must [...]
Posted in Custody, Take Action, Torture
| Tagged arlen specter, behavioral science consultation teams, brennan center for justice, frederic a. o. schwarz jr., Guantanamo, john farmer, lee f. gunn, medical ethics, mohammed al-qahtani, office of legal counsel, patrick leahy, petition, senate judiciary committee, susan crawford, washington post
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