Doctors Aided US Torture At Military Prisons, Report Says -- BBC
Doctors and nurses working under US military orders have been complicit in the abuse of terrorism suspects, a new independent US report says.
The study says medical professionals helped design, enable and participated in "torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment" of detainees.
The report was compiled by an independent panel of military, health, ethics and legal experts.
Both the CIA and the Pentagon have rejected the report's findings.
The two-year study was carried out by the Institute of Medicine and the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations.
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