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Posts Tagged physicians for human rights

New Report Accuses CIA Doctors of Experimenting on Detainees

By | 06.07.10 | 8:51 am

Physicians for Human Rights, an anti-torture non-governmental association, synthesizes a bunch of publicly available information to draw a gruesome conclusion: Medical personnel who participated in the Bush administration’s “enhanced interrogations” for terrorism detainees are guilty of “complicity in intentionally harmful interrogation practices [that] were not only apparently intended to enable More…

Report Suggests Physicians Experimented on Detainees in U.S. Custody

By | 09.03.09 | 12:50 pm

A report by Physicians for Human Rights released on Monday claims that U.S. physicians and psychologists betrayed ethical standards by collecting data on detainees’ reactions to abusive interrogations to as to improve their effectiveness. This would appear to constitute experimentation on human prisoners, which is a professional ethics More…

Physicians for Human Rights Working on Torture Report Critique

By | 08.25.09 | 2:46 pm

One of the more disturbing appendices to the 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture comes from the Office of Medical Services. On September 4, 2003, the office in the CIA responsible for “assessing and monitoring the health of all Agency detainees subject to ‘enhanced’ interrogation techniques” issued its More…