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From Steven Reisner: latest developments in the fight against psychologists’ and other health professionals’ involvement in torture
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Dear Colleagues,

Our efforts to restore ethics to our nation’s treatment of detainees and prisoners and to hold accountable those psychologists and other health professionals who created, supervised and implemented the program of abuse and torture are coming to a head. Two weeks ago, Physicians for Human Rights published an extraordinary exposé on the role of health professionals in creating a program of medical research on unwitting prisoners in order to assess the efficacy and ‘legality’ of abusive techniques, including water-boarding. (Full disclosure: I was a co-author of the report. It can be downloaded here.)

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