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Ban Psychologist Participation in Military Interrogations
- Target: President and Ethics Office of the American Psychological Association,
- Sponsored by: Student Outreach Initiative
-U.S. Army Col. Larry James, APA conference, August 2007
"Any interrogation system that teeters so close to atrocities needs more than a psychologist."
-Scott Horton, "Psychologists and the Torture Question" Harpers, 8-28-07
Urge the American Psychological Association to join with the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association in banning ALL participation of its health personnel in military interrogations. Ask the APA to amend its 2007 Resolution against torture with a COMPREHENSIVE, not just SELECTIVE, ban on psychologist participation!
We the undersigned respectfully request that the American Psychological Association join with the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association in banning participation of its health personnel in military interrogations.
In Its "Report an the Treatment by the Coalition Forces of Prisoners of War and other protected persons in Iraq", the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) drew the attention of the Coalition Forces to a number of serious violations of International Humanitarian Law, including:- Brutality against protected persons upon capture and initial custody, sometimes causing death or serious injury
- Absence of notification of arrest of persons deprived of their liberty to their families rousing distress among persons deprived of their liberty and their families
- Physical or psychological coercion during interrogation to secure information
- Prolonged solitary confinement in cells devoid of daylight
- Excessive and disproportionate use of force against persons deprived of their liberty resulting in death or injury during their period of internment.
We therefore request that the APA amend its Resolution Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, as passed during the 2007 APA Convention, with the following paragraph:
BE IT RESOLVED that the objectives of the APA "shall be to advance psychology as a science and profession and as a means of promoting health, education and welfare ... " (Bylaws of the APA: Article 1) and, therefore, the roles of psychologists, in settings in which detainees are deprived of adequate protection of their human rights, should be limited as health personnel to the provision of psychological treatment.
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