American military doctors participated in torture in the CIA and Pentagon prisons

Doctors of the US Army agreed to torture the alleged terrorists in American military prisons, and also personally took part in them, contrary to the principles of medical ethics, the published report of an independent commission on medical professionalism, CNN reports.

“The Ministry of Defense and the CIA illegally demanded that medical workers be in their staff to participate in the procedures for obtaining information in such a way that they (doctors) caused severe suffering to prisoners,” RIA Novosti quoted the authors quoted. It is worth noting that the authors of the report came to the conclusion that the situation with torture in order to combat terrorism was complicated after attacks on September 11, 2011.

The representative of the Pentagon Lieutenant Colonel Todd Brisil called the accusations "absolutely absurd." “It is worth noting that not one of the participants in the commission had direct access to the prisoners, their medical records or the description of the procedures,” the military NBC News quotes.

Brisil emphasized that the compilers received data for the report from the hands of the lawyers of the prisoners, which could not but affect their objectivity. According to the lieutenant colonel, in fact, the prisoners in special tours received better medical care than when they were free.

In the preparation of a document called “Refusal of ethics: the professionalism of doctors and violence against the“ War with Terror ”concluded by 19 experts from various institutions in the United States - doctors, military, lawyers and specialists on ethics. The commission participants studied the records and protocols that were in the publication of Guantanamo prison, as well as in prison in prison American military bases in Afghanistan and Iraq.