News archive for 2006
When the global rock star Skin first visited the MF's adolescent group she was moved by the passion and enthusiasm that welcomed her. She has since gone on to raise £5,000 for the organisation while on tour through merchandise sales.
The MF has called on European governments to condemn the death sentence handed out to six foreign medics in Libya whose retrial was based on confessions extracted under torture. Reiterating its objection to the UK's policy of returning terror suspects to Libya, the organisation says the sentence is a betrayal of Europe's anti-torture commitment.
The MF has called on European governments to condemn the death sentence handed out to six foreign medics in Libya whose retrial was based on confessions extracted under torture.
Torture has always been on the human rights agenda, yet never so explicitly as today, as some of the world's leading democracies spiral towards a brutal betrayal of human rights by openly defying the international ban on torture.
The fact that Augusto Pinochet, who has died, will now not face a court of law to answer for the murderous activities of his regime is regrettable, says the MF.
Her sharp wit and incisive comments have ensured Shazia Mirza a reputation beyond the comedy circuit, and now she is lending her support to the Medical Foundation at a cross-cultural event that celebrates free speech.
The inequalities in health care for torture survivors provided the focus of an MF talk to a leading national human rights forum which aims to raise awareness among lawyers working with asylum seekers.
Some of the UK's most reputable writers gave their fans a glimpse of their own inspirations at what has become a regular event on the literary calendar.
MF advises Brazilian forensic experts on tackling torture by state agents
Asylum seekers who have been convicted of arriving in the UK without a valid passport establishing their identity and nationality can appeal against their sentence following a ruling by the Lord Chief Justice.
A new compilation album featuring 50 up and coming independent rock artists is helping to raise awareness about the MF by reaching millions of music buffs through Radio 1 and the music media.
The rule of law in Western Europe has, since World War Two, increasingly upheld the rights of the individual. Liberal sentiment in the respective judiciaries has gained such an ascendancy that those countries bathed in its light have become beacons to the persecuted and oppressed the world over.
Former ITN journalist and newsreader Sir Trevor MacDonald made the draw
in a raffle with a difference on behalf of the Medical Foundation.
More than 30 years ago, faced with a growing terror threat in
Northern Ireland, the British military singled out 14 men with
Republican sympathathies and subjected them to a variety of sensory
deprivation techniques. The UK Government then announced it was
abandoning such methods. This article explains why.
The importance of doctors presenting evidence of torture in a manner stipulated by international agreement when producing medico-legal reports for use in asylum claims has been highlighted by the Court of Appeal.
Interview: Long-term MF supporter, writer and comic actor Alexei Sayle talks about his new career as an author, why he doesn't miss perfoming and why he pities politicians.
The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture is calling on the government to formally withdraw its long held reservation to the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child ( CRC) following a European directive this week that will improve the plight of asylum-seeking children in Britain.
The Home Office should stop detaining asylum seekers who have survived torture following a damning report into healthcare at a removal centre.
Real fears remain that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will continue to use techniques amounting to torture against detainees held in the "War on Terror", despite the Bush Administration abandoning its efforts to rewrite the humane treatment requirements of the Geneva Conventions, the Medical Foundation (MF) warns.
Madeline Blakeney, a former stage and television actress who for a number years as a volunteer ran the MF's Holiday Scheme, died in September 2006.