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Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice re: Fathi Al-Jahmi, September 2, 2008
As Secretary of State Rice prepares to travel to Libya in the coming days, PHR has written to her to urge that human rights cases be a central focus of her dialogue with Libyan officials...
Medical Leaders Call for Justice for Iranian Doctors
In partership/conjunction with PHR and the HIV Medical Association, sixteen top US medical experts have written a letter to the Minister of Health in Iran urging the government to respect the basic human rights of Doctor Arash Alaei and his brother, Doctor Kamair Alaei, who were taken into custody by Iranian authorities in late June and are being held incommunicado.
Rubenstein, Allen, and Keller Statements to Helsinki Commission on Medical Evidence of Torture
Dr. Allen Keller and PHR President Leonard Rubenstein appeared before the U.S. Helsinki Commission to make statements on the medical evidence of torture by U.S. personnel...
Amicus Brief in Support of Adequate Health Care for Immigration Detainees and Asylum Seekers
PHR and the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture filed an amicus brief allowing a class action lawsuit to proceed to challenge health conditions in an ICE detention facility.
Broken Laws, Broken Lives
PHR's report details for the first time medical evidence confirming first-hand accounts of men who endured torture by US personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. These men were never charged with any crime.
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