PETITION: Against Psychologists' Participation in Interrogation of 'Enemy Combatants'
 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/483607021
Please sign the following petition if you want to be among a group of psychologists and APA members who unequivocally state opposition to the participation of psychologists in the interrogation processes at Guantánamo and other similar facilities in which detainees are denied the protection of either due process or Geneva Convention monitoring.
Related article:
August 1, 2006
The Folks Who Brought Us Brainwashing and ECT Try to Clean Up
Psychologists, Guantanamo and Torture
By STEPHEN SOLDZ
http://counterpunch.org/
excerpt:
"As the New Yorker's Jane Mayer told Democracy Now!, one psychiatrist determined that a particular inmate would be allowed seven toilet paper squares a day, while another inmate who was afraid of the dark was deliberately kept almost totally in the dark. Another consultant behavioral scientist, psychologist James Mitchell, recommended that interrogators treat a detainee in such a way as to generate a form of helplessness known as "learned helplessness.""
United Nations Committee against Torture: "detaining persons indefinitely without charge, constitutes per se a violation of the Convention" Against Torture.
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