CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE

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Subject: News from PHR: Campaign Against Torture/G8/New Report from Chiapas, Mexico
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:24:01 -0400
From: Physicians for Human Rights <[email protected]>


News from PHR



July 28, 2006





IN THIS ISSUE



Campaign Against Torture
Momentum Builds for the American Psychological Association to Prohibit Psychologists from Participating in Interrogations
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CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE



Momentum Builds for the American Psychological Association to Prohibit Psychologists from Participating in Interrogations

Momentum is building among the membership of the American Psychological Association (APA) to contest the current APA guidelines that allow member involvement in interrogations related to US counter-terrorism efforts. PHR has urged the APA leadership, meeting in New Orleans August 10-13, to adopt an explicit rule that prohibits psychologists from participating in interrogations, upholding core tenets of health care ethics and US law. A recent article published on Salon.com brought to light the first evidence of direct involvement by a psychologist in abusive interrogations conducted by US personnel in 2002. The American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association both adopted prohibitions against direct health personnel involvement in interrogations earlier this year.

See the PHR news release:
http://www.phrusa.org/research/torture/news_2006-07-26.html



See the article about direct psychologist involvement in abusive interrogation on Salon.com: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/07/26/interrogation/index_np.html

See a recent Associated Press article detailing how the American Psychological Association is under fire for declaring that it is permissible for psychologists to assist in military interrogations:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PSYCHOLOGISTS_TORTURE?SITE=KJLL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Read PHR’s response to the recent Supreme Court decision for Hamdan vs Rumsfeld:
http://www.phrusa.org/research/torture/news_2006-07-05.html

For more information on PHR’s Campaign Against Torture:
http://www.phrusa.org/research/torture/abu_ghraib.html




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[Demeter]

1. Save US Citizens From Torture By These Idiots!

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