Red Cross Report: Medics Grossly Violated Ethics

All Things Considered | Apr. 7, 2009 (News Report)

Medical personnel who monitored the CIA's interrogation of detainees at black sites around the world violated medical ethics, says a report from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Mark Danner, a journalism professor who published the report in the New York Review of Books, says the ICRC report details incidents of sleep deprivation, extensive beating, immersion in cold water and suffocation by water. Full Story »

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The ICRC report provides independent expert witness that medical personel aided the war crime of torture.

The report is linked here from the NY Review of Books site.

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    International Committee of the Red Cross, The New York Review of Books | Apr. 7, 2009 (Special Report)
    [this is the leaked confidential report from the International Committee of the Red Cross]
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