quote: According to a study published this week, doctors and psychologists working for the U.S. Department of Defense and CIA have participated in the physical and psychological torture of suspected terrorists in the post-9/11 era. [....] According to the group, the ways in which the DoD and CIA have breached medical ethics standards include, but are not limited to: • Using doctors for abusive interrogation; consulting on conditions of confinement to increase the disorientation and anxiety of detainees; • Using medical information for interrogation purposes; Force-feeding of hunger strikers; • Implementing rules that permitted medical and psychological information obtained by health professionals to be used in interrogations; • Requiring physicians and nurses to forgo their independent medical judgment and counseling roles, as well as to force-feed competent detainees engaged in hunger strikes even though this is forbidden by the World Medical Association and the American Medical Association; https://commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/04
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 11:54:44 +0000
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