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Over 260 doctors call for ban on force-feeding and restraint chairs at Guantanamo

263 doctors from 7 different countries (UK, USA, Ireland, Germany, Australia, Italy & the Netherlands) are calling for the US government to abandon forcefeeding and the use of restraint chairs in accordance with internationally agreed standards in this week's issue of The Lancet.

The World Medical Association specifically prohibits forcefeeding in the Declarations of Tokyo and Malta, to which the American Medical Association is a signatory. Physicians attending hunger strikers have a responsibility to respect prisoners' informed decision, even if they disagree. Those breaching the guidelines should be held to account by their professional bodies, state David Nicholl (City Hospital, Birmingham, UK) and colleagues in their correspondence letter.

Dr Nicholl concludes: "We urge the US government to ensure that detainees are assessed by independent physicians and that techniques such as forcefeeding and restraint chairs are abandoned forthwith in accordance with internationally agreed standards."


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Contact: Joe Santangelo
j.santangelo@elsevier.com
212-633-3810
Lancet
9-Mar-2006


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