According to the International Red Cross, health workers violated medical ethics when they helped interrogate terrorism suspects who were tortured at secret CIA prisons overseas. The medical workers, thought to be doctors and psychologists, monitored prisoners while they were mistreated at CIA prisons and advised interrogators whether to continue, adjust or halt the abuse, the Int’l. Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a report based on interviews with 14 prisoners in 2007.

Facilitating such practices, which the Red Cross described as torture, was a violation of medical ethics even if the medical workers’ intentions had been to prevent death or permanent injury, the report said. But it found that the medical professionals’ role was primarily to support the interrogators, not to protect the prisoners, and that the professionals had “condoned and participated in ill treatment.”

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