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."
No comments:
Post a Comment