Broken Laws, Broken Lives

Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel

In PHR's new report, Broken Laws, Broken Lives, we have, for the first time, medical evidence to confirm 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. 

Maj. General Antonio Taguba, who led the US Army's official investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal and testified before Congress on his findings in May, 2004, says, in his preface to the report:

"This report tells the largely untold human story of what happened to detainees in our custody when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture. This story is not only written in words: It is scrawled for the rest of these individuals' lives on their bodies and minds. Our national honor is stained by the indignity and inhumane treatment these men received from their captors."

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