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By a nearly unanimous vote, the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives has voted to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations. The resolution puts the APA on the side of...

By a nearly unanimous vote, the American Psychological Association’s Council of Representatives has voted to adopt a new policy barring psychologists from participating in national security interrogations. The resolution puts the APA on the side of international law by barring psychologists from working at Guantánamo, CIA black sites and other settings deemed illegal under the Geneva Conventions or the U.N. Convention Against Torture, unless they’re working directly for detainees or independent third parties defending human rights. Tune in to Democracy Now! for our special report from the APA’s annual meeting.

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“Right now, there are psychologists at Guantánamo Bay, and they’re not only doing therapy.”

- Steven Reisner, a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, speaking last night at a town hall meeting, where the American Psychological Association is holding its annual convention. Watch today’s Democracy Now! special report.

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Guantánamo is a story about secrecy. It was created in secrecy. It was created in order to allow abuse to happen. Then it was perpetuated in order to cover up that those abuses happened. It’s being prolonged, finally, to prevent accountability for those abuses.
Larry Siems, editor of Guantánamo Diary, the new best-selling account of one prisoner’s rendition and torture at the U.S. detention facility in Cuba. Siems appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the task of editing the words of Mohamedou Ould Slahi. Also joining the discussion is Slahi’s attorney and Col. Morris Davis, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay.
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