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Monday, June 24, 2013

Obama, Provide Independent Medical Examiners to Guantanamo Detainees

Obama, Provide Independent Medical Examiners to Guantanamo Detainees


  • Target: President Obama
  • Sponsored by: Susan V
The United Nations and World Medical Association require that Guantanamo detainees have access to independent medical advice and examinations. But they aren’t getting it.
 
In response to this violation and a public plea by detainees, a group of 150 doctors from around the world and including the U.S. have published an open letter to President Obama urging him to correct this injustice.
 
The plea comes from several detainees engaged in a hunger strike as their only means of attracting attention to their plight. In retaliation, military doctors are force-feeding them in a very painful and abusive manner, they reported last month in a letter to the Guardian. 
 
The detainees are pleading for independent medical care because they say military doctors are compromising their duty to patients and putting loyalty to their superiors first. Detainees insist they cannot trust them, and without this trust, acceptable medical care is impossible.
 
Ask President Obama to provide independent medical examiners to Guantanamo detainees.  PLEASE CLICK HERE TO SIGN!
 

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