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Do No Harm
PHR's emergency report documents and decries systematic human rights abuses in Bahrain, and persecution of health workers based on their knowledge of those abuses.
Hospital Staff Upholds International Medical Ethics During Unrest in Bangkok
Two PHR researchers report from Thailand that actions by anti-government protesters - who first blockaded and later forcibly entered and searched a major hospital in central Bangkok in April 2010 - were a gross violation of humanitarian principles.
Letter to Iranian Authorities Concerning the Suspicious Death of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani
Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights, and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called on the Iranian authorities to allow for an independent investigation into the suspicious death of Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, who may have been witness to the possible ill treatment, torture, and deaths of prisoners at Kahrizak detention center...
Perilous Medicine
This report details the detention, torture, prosecution and killing of Kosovar Albanian physicians by Serbian forces during the 1998-99 war which took place during the decade-long exclusion of the majority of Kosovar Albanian physicians from the state health system.
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.
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