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interrogation activities”); Neil A. Lewis, supra note 103 (ICRC workers “asserted that some
doctors and other medical workers at Guantánamo were participating in planning for
interrogations”, in what the report called “a flagrant violation of medical ethics”); The
Schmidt Report, supra 115, at 17 (medical records indicated monitoring of body temperature
of detainee being exposed to extreme cold); G. Bloche and J. Marks, supra note 116.
118
M. Sullivan and J. Colangelo-Bryan, “Guantánamo Bay Detainee Statements:
Jum’ah Mohammed AbdulLatif Al Dossari, Isa Ali Abdulla Al Murbati, Abdullah Al Noaimi
and Adel Kamel Abdulla Haji” (May 2005) at 16 (statement of Mr. Al Noaimi); Interviews with
former detainees Rustam Akhmiarov and Airat Vakhitov, London (18 November 2005); Defence
Counsel Questionnaires (reporting non-consensual drugging, including injections, and
force-feeding through nasal tubes, as well as participation of health professionals in monitoring
health for interrogations).
119
See Neil A. Lewis, supra note 103 (quoting ICRC report).
120
US Department of Defense, Medical Program Principles and Procedures for the
Protection and Treatment of Detainees in the Custody of the Armed Forces of the
United States (3 June 2005).
121
The Kiley Report, supra note 115, 1-8.
122
They have included, among others, subjecting detainees to sleep deprivation, 20-hour
interrogations day after day, months of isolation, loud music and strobe lights, extremes of heat
and cold, short shackling to an eye-bolt on the floor, and exploiting phobias, such as instilling
fear with military dogs. Interrogators also sexually and culturally humiliate detainees, subjecting
them to forced nudity in front of females, forcing them to wear a woman’s bra on the head and
calling female relatives whores. The Schmidt Report, supra note 115. See also chapter III (2)
supra.
123
L. Rubenstein, C. Pross, F. Davidoff and V. Iacopino, “Coercive US Interrogation
Policies: A Challenge to Medical Ethics”, 294:12 Journal of the American Medical
Association 1544, 1545 (28 September 2005).
124
United Nations Principles, Principle 5 (emphasis added).
125
See e.g., Majid Abdulla Al-Joudi v. George W. Bush, Civil action No. 05-301, US District
Court for the District of Columbia (26 October 2005); Charlie Savage, “Guantánamo medics
accused of abusive force-feeding: Detainees’ Lawyers go before Judge” The Boston Globe
(15 October 2005); Tim Golden “Tough U.S. Steps in Hunger Strike at Camp in Cuba”
The New York Times (9 February 2006).
126
127
See supra para. 54.
Declaration of Tokyo, supra para. 74 and note 111; World Medical Association, Declaration
of Malta (1992); see generally, Reyes Hernan, “Medical and Ethical Aspects of Hunger Strikes