We Won’t Torture Anymore: American Psychological Association Tells U.S. to Withdraw Psychologists from Nat. Sec. Interrogations
ANGLO AMERICA, 2 Nov 2015
Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service
30 Oct 2015 – The American Psychological Association has officially notified the U.S. government of its new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations.
The new rules were approved in August after an independent investigation documented how the APA leadership actively colluded with the Pentagon and the CIA torture programs.
In a new letter to the White House and top federal officials, the APA asks the government to withdraw psychologists from any interrogation or prison setting that could put them in violation of the new ethics policy.
We get reaction from Widney Brown, director of programs at Physicians for Human Rights, who says the changes are key to protecting health professionals from military prosecution “when they stand by those ethical codes of conduct and refuse to engage in what is patently unlawful behavior.”
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