Collaboration of Rockwood Fellows Plays Large Role in Coalition Supporting PHR Torture Report.

Last Monday, June 7, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) released Experiments in Torture: Human Subject Research and Experimentation in the “Enhanced” Interrogation Program to immediate, overwhelming response. The report’s principle author is 2010 Rockwood Fellowship for Human Rights and National Security Reform (HRNSR) member Nathaniel A. Raymond, Director of PHR's Campaign Against Torture. According to the PHR Web site: “Experiments in Torture is the first report to reveal evidence indicating that CIA medical personnel allegedly engaged in the crime of illegal experimentation after 9/11, in addition to the previously disclosed crime of torture. In their attempt to justify the war crime of torture, the CIA appears to have committed another alleged war crime—illegal experimentation on prisoners.”

Several Fellows and organizations from the 2010 Rockwood HRNSR Fellowship are involved in building a broad coalition to coordinate media and grassroots strategies around the report release, including filing a formal complaint to the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Human Research Protections against the Central Intelligence Agency. Collaboration among organizations within sectors is a major goal of the Rockwood Fellowship model. We congratulate Fellows for their results not only in producing an excellent and important report, but also in their pioneering efforts for collaboration in the national security and human rights field.

For more information about the report in general, please visit: http://phrtorturepapers.org/

For more information about the coalition, which includes several 2010 Rockwood HRNSR Fellows, please click here to read an article from the Torture Papers blog.

2010 Rockwood HRNSR Fellows and organizations involved in making this coalition happen include:

• Physicians for Human Rights: Nathaniel Raymond
  
• Amnesty International USA: Njambi Good
  
• Bill of Rights Defense Committee: Shahid Buttar
  
• Center for Constitutional Rights: Jen Nessel
  
• Center for Victims of Torture: Catherine Arrowood
  
• National Religious Campaign Against Torture: John Humphries