Physicians' Obligation to Speak out for Prisoners' Health.
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As this is written, military review hearings at the US detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are under way to determine whether any of the individual detainees has been wrongly classified as an "illegal combatant" by the Department of Defense, and is, thus, eligible for repatriation. The men facing these hearings have been held, often in solitary confinement, for up to 21⁄2 years and have not had access to legal counsel. It appears from news reports that a majority of detainees are refusing to participate in the hearings.
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- The virtual mentor : VM
دوره 6 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004