Campaign Against Torture

Campaign Against Torture

CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE Campaign Home About the Campaign Areas of Focus News & Reports	Campaign Against Torture In response to the systematic infliction of psychological and physical torture by US forces, PHR's Campaign Against Torture seeks to restore the US commitment against torture, to ensure humane treatment of detainees, and to protect US health personnel from complicity in mistreatment and harm. More about the campaign Get involved with the campaign - Sign up to receive action alerts and updates from the Campaign Against Torture
Campaign Against Torture news & action alerts © PHR Stephen Xenakis, MD Retired Brigadier General "Medical personnel have a duty to serve as a check to the line command and investigators, and as a constant reminder that all soldiers – even the enemy captured in combat – should be treated with dignity and humanely." Read More THE PHR REPORT: Break Them Down: The Use of Psychological Torture by US Forces MORE ON PHR'S WORK AGAINST TORTURE PHR Research on Torture Assisting Torture Survivors	NEWS The Torture Veto and America’s Image - A Letter to the Editor of The New York Times PHR Condemns Bush's Veto of Torture Prohibition; Calls for Congress to Vote to Override Congress Passes Measure Banning the CIA's "Enhanced" Interrogation Techniques More PHR press releases Archive of Goverment Documents on Medical Operations at US Prisoner of War Facilities The Human Rights Library at the University of Minnesota has made available to the public an archive of government documents describing medical operations in US prisoner of war facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at Guantanamo Bay. See the archive Debate on Physician Participation in Interrogations Between PHR Executive Director Leonard Rubenstein and US Army Surgeon General Kevin Kiley On the evening of March 13, 2006, Mr. Rubenstein and General Kiley engaged in an extraordinary debate on the role of military doctors in interrogations at US detention facilities, including Guantánamo Bay. Find out more and listen to the debate	AREAS OF FOCUS US Regime of Psychological Torture The Role of Health Professionals in Interrogations and Abuse The Abuse of Hunger Strikers in US Detention Facilities Detainee Deaths IN THE MEDIA The CIA's Torture Teachers - Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics. (Listen to an interview with the author of this article on the Democracy Now website.) June 21, 2007 Q&A on Psychologists and Torture - Analysis of a recently declassified Pentagon report on detainee abuse by the military. June 7, 2007 Interrogation Abuses - New York Times letter to the editor from PHR's Len Rubenstein and retired general Stephen Xenakis June 6, 2007 > More In the Media

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