Israeli doctors 'failing to report torture of Palestinian detainees'

[TomClash]

Human rights groups accuse doctors of failing to document signs of torture and returning detainees to interrogators

Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 3 November 2011 04.53 EDT

Medical professionals in Israel are being accused of failing to document and report injuries caused by the ill-treatment and torture of detainees by security personnel in violation of their ethical code.

A report by two Israeli human rights organisations, the Public Committee Against Torture (PCAT) and Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), claims that medical staff are also failing to report suspicion of torture and ill-treatment, returning detainees to their interrogators and passing medical information to interrogators.

The report, Doctoring the Evidence, Abandoning the Victim, to be published later this month, is based on 100 cases of Palestinian detainees brought to PCAT since 2007. It says: "This report reveals significant evidence arousing the suspicion that many doctors ignore the complaints of their patients; that they allow Israeli Security Agency interrogators to use torture; approve the use of forbidden interrogation methods and the ill-treatment of helpless detainees; and conceal information, thereby allowing total immunity for the torturers."

Alleged ill-treatment of detainees, some of whose cases are detailed in the 61-page report, includes beatings, being held for long periods in stress positions, hands being tightly tied with plastic cuffs, sleep deprivation and threats. Israel denies torturing or ill-treating prisoners.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/03/israeli-doctors-report-torture-palestinian

[bemildred]

1. So are these groups(PCAT, PHR) NGOs too?

It sounds like they are.

[TomClash]

2. those groups too nt

[bemildred]

5. Well, I guess they must be telling the truth then. nt

[vminfla]

3. Do they file their reports under Fiction?

Just because a non-descript organization says something is happening does not make it true. No doubt their study was as scientifically sound as the Lancet's

[TomClash]

4. And why would you say it is "fiction"?

Oh, wait, I know - they are all "self-hating." :eyes: