6/27: NRCAT forum in Pasadena

[anni]

Here's a flyer from Jeanne and Virginia of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. Click on the atachment to see the whole flyer:

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[Jeanne]

Thanks, anni for the link. It looks really good. Speaker John Bradshaw for Physicians for Human Rights. Then a panel discussion.

Paige says she's going and would love to have some corner people to join her. I will be traveling and will miss it.

[Brian]

For those who won't click three times to see that excellent pdf flyer posted above: The Los Angeles Region of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture leads the list of local organizations sponsoring the symposium, "First Do No Harm: The Role of Medical Professionals in U.S.-Sponsored Torture," on Sunday, June 27, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at All Saints Church, 132 N. Euclid Ave. in Pasadena.

Keynote speaker John Bradshaw, chief policy officer and director of Physicians for Human Rights’ Washington office, will precede a panel discussion moderated by Eisha Mason of the American Friends Service Committee that will include Dr. Jose Quiroga, who was Salvador Allende's personal physician -- and was with Allende in the palace during the coup.

NRCAT's Virginia Classick provides the background on the white paper that Bradshaw co-wrote:

On June 7, Physicians for Human Rights released a report, Experiments in Torture: Evidence of Human Subject Experimentation in the "Enhanced" Interrogation Program. The PHR report indicates that there is evidence that health professionals were engaged in research on detainees that violates the Geneva Conventions, The Common Rule, the Nuremberg Code and other international and domestic prohibitions against illegal human subject research and experimentation. The report can be read on the PHR website:

phrtorturepapers.org/