Exams reveal abuse, torture of detainees
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former terrorist suspects detained by the United States were tortured, according to medical examinations detailed in a report released Wednesday by a human rights group.
The Massachusetts-based Physicians for Human Rights reached that conclusion after two-day clinical evaluations of 11 former detainees, who had been held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan.
The detainees were never charged with crimes.
"We found clear physical and psychological evidence of torture and abuse, often causing lasting suffering," said Dr. Allen Keller, a medical evaluator for the study.
In a 121-page report, the doctors' group said that it uncovered medical evidence of torture, including beatings, electric shock, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation, sodomy and scores of other abuses.
The report is prefaced by retired U.S. Major Gen. Antonio Taguba, who led the Army's investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in 2003.
Full report at http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/06/18/gitmo.detainees/?iref=mpstoryview
Bush is out
what better thing they can do?
Fatcat: One of my not-so-rare 'dense' moments! :-p
Somebody told me, "You are what you eat".Now I know why I'm nuts!!
Its sickening...No charges and continuous torture, why is this allowed..If they are guilty, go ahead charge them.....If not let them free...
Winn, we were being sarcastic!
Well...yeah its shocking!
But whats interesting is that there are very few countries in the world who have the systems that would let such an impartial investigation take place and, more than that, make the report public.
Ofcourse that doesnot justify torture of detainees in any way
Somebody told me, "You are what you eat".Now I know why I'm nuts!!
Yeah, who'da thought! :-/
What a shocker! :P