Medical abuse at Guantanamo Bay Military Prison – what do we do now?

Abstract

A la fin de 2013, l'Institut de Médecine comme Profession (IMAP) et les Fondations Open Society ont publié un rapport qui révélait que les politiques du Département Américain de la Défense et de l'Agence Centrale de Renseignement (CIA) ont institutionnalisé un éventail de pratiques par les agents de santé militaires et de l'agence de renseignement travaillant à la prison militaire de la Baie de Guantanamo, qui violent globalement les normes acceptées de l’éthique médicale. Il s'agit notamment de la participation du personnel médical à des interrogatoires abusifs, l'utilisation des informations médicales personnelles à des fins d'interrogatoire et le gavage des grévistes de la faim. Cet éditorial souligne ces pratiques continues et appelle à une action cohérente de la communauté médicale mondiale.

A Human Rights and Ethics Crisis Facing the World’s Largest Organization of Psychologists

“…Military medical personnel are placed in a position of a ‘dual loyalty’ conflict.” Second, other categories of information obtained by clinicians were supposedly protected by clear rules, policies, and assurances of confidentiality, thus creating a clear wall between clinical work and interrogations. But despite outright denials of any breaches, clinical information was weaponized for use against detainees in interrogations (Bloche & Marks, 2005; Buckley, Rokadiya, Kessel, Porter, & Dar, 2014; Clark, 2006; Fink, 2016; Institute on Medicine as a Profession, 2013; Lewis, 2004; Miles, 2004; Physicians for Human Rights, 2014). Taking advantage of what they had learned either from clinical charts or in some cases directly from clinicians, some interrogators devised tactics based on diagnoses, phobias, sources of shame, religious beliefs, sexual issues, concerns for family members from whom they were separated, and other vulnerabilities that detainees had confided to therapists or other clinicians.…”