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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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They are doing special things to special people in special places.

Kirk Hubbard, a senior CIA official, referring to the torture overseen by the agency’s psychologists. Learn more about how the American Psychological Association assisted the CIA’s torture program at democracynow.org.

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Accused of Stealing a Backpack, High School Student Jailed for Nearly Three Years Without Trial

How in the world did a New York City teenager end up spending nearly three years in jail without a trial or pleading guilty of a crime? And of that time behind bars, he spent nearly 800 days in solitary confinement. Watch this segment on Democracy Now! today to learn more.

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Watch: On Democracy Now today, reporter Glenn Greenwald sharply criticizes NPR’s counterterrorism correspondent Dina Temple-Raston for presenting a report quoting a known CIA-backed tech firm as an objective account on the effects of the Snowden leaks on al-Qaeda cyber tactics.

“This was such a pure and indisputable case of journalistic malpractice and deceit,” says Greenwald. “NPR radically misled millions of people with this report.”

The tech firm Recorded Future claimed to have “tangible evidence” that Snowden’s leaks harmed national security by prompting terrorists to develop more sophisticated encryption programs.

Greenwald explains that the CIA had invested millions of dollars in the tech firm, that the investment arm of the agency sits on the board, and that the individual researcher Temple-Raston quotes in the report heads a company in a strategic partnership with the CIA.

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This is an image of a chair used to force feed Guantánamo prisoners, recently documented by Al Jazeera. As the prison-wide hunger strike enters its 133rd day, a group of top U.S. doctors and public health specialists are calling on their colleagues in the military to boycott the mass force-feeding of prisoners. In an article for the New England Journal of Medicine, three professors from Boston University write: “Physicians at Guantánamo cannot permit the military to use them and their medical skills for political purposes and still comply with their ethical obligations. Force-feeding a competent person is not the practice of medicine; it is aggravated assault.” Watch the Democracy Now! interview with George Annas, one of the co-authors of the article. He is a professor of health law, bioethics and human rights at the Boston University School of Public Health. If you are a medical professional, would you consider joining this protest?

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