News archive for 2004
The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture welcomed today's emphatic decision by the House of Lords that indefinite detention without trial is incompatible with the Human Rights Act 1998.
The High Court ruled today that the Government must conduct an effective investigation into the alleged death under torture, while in British custody, of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa (Al Skeini and Others v Secretary of State).
Duncan Forrest, who has died suddenly at home in Kent just short of his 82nd birthday, made an enormous contribution to the field of paediatric surgery and then, during an active retirement, developed a second medical career in the field of human rights and documenting evidence of torture at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
Dr Duncan Forrest, a former President of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, was from his retirement in 1987 until his death a senior examining doctor with the MF, and author of several books on torture. Born December 19 1922; died December 2 2004.
The Home Office will place CCTV inside vans following the MF report into excessive or gratuitous force in failed removals.
MF Director of Fundraising Jasvir Kaur has been named Fundraising Manager of the Year in UK Charity Awards 2004.
The American Medical Association has called for a new investigation into whether doctors were complicit in the torture of prisoners held by US military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
MF doctors doctors find a dozen cases of excessive or gratuitous force used against failed asylum seekers.
Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy will attend a screening in Reading next week of Blind Flight, a film about the ordeal...
New details about US treatment of 'War on Terror' suspects show routine abuse amounting to torture, says the Medical Foundation.
The Medical Foundation offers deepest condolences to the family of Dr Derek Robinson and his wife Jean, murdered at their north London home on September 17
Consultant paediatrician Dr Derek Robinson was a leading authority on the ageing process of adolescents - of crucial importance to young refugees who the Home Office sought to prove were adults masquerading as teenagers. He was murdered with his wife Jean at their north London home in September 2004.
The MF urges US medical profession to investigate whether US military medics were complicit in prisoner torture.
Three Britons' allegations of abuse at Guantanamo Bay recall interrogation and torture techniques at Bagram airbase and at Abu Ghraib.
Former Beirut hostage John McCarthy announces opening of MF branch in Newcastle
The Medical Foundation's new building opens to offer torture survivors medical and psychological care in a bright, welcoming environment.
The MF urges the UK government to allow the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture to visit detainees held by British forces overseas
Asylum seekers who have been raped by the security forces in their countries of origin endured state torture, says MF
The MF today presents the first substantial body of reliable evidence on the use of rape in the armed conflict in Chechnya.
Best-selling authors auction names in their forthcoming novels to the public for Medical Foundation.