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Senate Armed Services Committee Finds Highest Levels of Bush Administration Authorized Abusive Interrogations
Today the Senate Armed Services Committee released the compelling conclusions of its lengthy inquiry into the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody. The Committee's findings demonstrate that abusive interrogation techniques were explicitly authorized at the highest levels of the Administration.
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PHR Salutes APA's Ban on Psychologists at Illegal U.S. Interrogations
American Psychological Association (APA) sends letter to President Bush to inform him ofa significant change in APA policy that limits the roles of psychologists at illegal U.S. detention facilities, such as Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and CIA black sites overseas, where systematic torture has occurred.
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Psychologists Prohibited from Abusive US Detention Centers
Today PHR salutes the American Psychological Association (APA) membership for restoring the APA's commitment to human rights and medical ethics.
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Covert CIA Detention Center on British Soil Revealed
PHR calls for a full trans-Atlantic investigation by Congress and the Parliament of the United Kingdom in the wake of today's revelation by TIME magazine that the US covertly used Diego Garcia, a British island off the coast of India, as a top secret CIA detention center...
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CEO Frank Donaghue Responds to Comments in The Washington Post by Navy Commander J.D. Gordon on New PHR Report
"PHR's research was conducted by some of the world's leading experts on evaluating and documenting torture claims, according to rigorous and internationally accepted clinical standards," stated Frank Donaghue, CEO of Physicians for Human Rights...

