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April 7, 2009

Red Cross: US Medical Personnel Involved in Torture of Prisoners
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In its once-secret report, the International Committee of the Red Cross
concluded US medical personnel were deeply involved in the CIA’s torture
of prisoners held in overseas prisons. The Red Cross report said the
actions of medical personnel “constituted a gross breach of medical
ethics and, in some cases, amounted to participation in torture.” The
Red Cross’s secret 2007 report was published in its entirety yesterday
by the New York Review of Books. The Red Cross also called on the United
States to “investigate all allegations of ill-treatment and take steps
to punish the perpetrators, where appropriate, and to prevent such
abuses from happening again.”



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