{"id":4535,"date":"2013-11-13T05:07:18","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T13:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2018-03-05T21:05:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T05:05:36","slug":"health-professionals-participated-in-cruelty-and-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=4535","title":{"rendered":"Health professionals participated in cruelty and torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Medical, Military, and Ethics Experts Say Health Professionals Designed and Participated in Cruel, Inhumane, and Degrading Treatment and Torture of Detainees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York, NY \u2014 An independent panel of military, ethics, medical, public health, and legal experts today charged that U.S. military and intelligence agencies directed doctors and psychologists working in U.S. military detention centers to violate standard ethical principles and medical standards to avoid infliction of harm. The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (see attached) concludes that since September 11, 2001, the Department of Defense (DoD) and CIA improperly demanded that U.S. military and intelligence agency health professionals collaborate in intelligence gathering and security practices in a way that inflicted severe harm on detainees in U.S. custody.<\/p>\n<p>These practices included \u201cdesigning, participating in, and enabling torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment\u201d of detainees, according to the report. Although the DoD has taken steps to address some of these practices in recent years, including instituting a committee to review medical ethics concerns at Guantanamo Bay Prison, the Task Force says the changed roles for health professionals and anemic ethical standards adopted within the military remain in place. 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