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Obama's Guantanamo Policy Condemned by PHR
PHR condemns President Barack Obama’s recent announcement that military trials would resume for detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?
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Bush Cancels Trip to Switzerland Amid Calls for Prosecution: PHR Applauds Efforts for Justice
PHR today expressed support for the Center for Constitutional Rights’ (CCR) efforts to file two criminal complaints against Former President George W. Bush?
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Science Article Shows that the US Government Used Bad Science to Commit and Conceal Torture
In an article to be published tomorrow by the journal Science, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) experts show that the Bush administration relied on flawed science to justify the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) which were previously recognized as torture by the U.S. government...
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PHR and Six Advocacy Organizations Call for Elimination of Dangerous Section of Army Field Manual
In a letter to the Pentagon, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), in association with Amnesty International USA, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, the Open Society Foundations, the Center for Victims of Torture, Human Rights First and Human Rights Watch, calls for an end to Appendix M of the 2006 Army Field Manual, which authorizes the use of sleep deprivation and isolation as part of the interrogation of detainees in US custody...
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Physicians for Human Rights Calls for Pentagon Inspector General Inquiry into Alleged "No-Bid" Contract to Dr. Martin Seligman
(Cambridge, MA) Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) called on the Department of Defense Inspector General to investigate revelations in Salon.com that Dr. Martin Seligman may have improperly received an over $30 million "no-bid" contract from the Pentagon.
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