From Steve Biko to Guantanamo - 30 years of medical involvement in torture Petition: Signature List Feed http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/from-steve-biko-to-guantanamo-30-years-of-medical-involvement-in-torture.html Online petition signatures en-us Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:27 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition Ms. Tova Fuller [Signature #241] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2362383?utm_medium=rss Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:10:59 UTC 2362383 Dr Amanda Owen [Signature #240] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2294423?utm_medium=rss Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:41:18 UTC 2294423 Dr. Claudius Helpert [Signature #239] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2219677?utm_medium=rss Mon, 6 Aug 2007 01:16:32 UTC 2219677 Dr Alexander Frame [Signature #238] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2209847?utm_medium=rss Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:27:10 UTC 2209847 Dr Michael Innes [Signature #237] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2195846?utm_medium=rss Thu, 2 Aug 2007 06:01:50 UTC 2195846 Dr. Helen Groom [Signature #236] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2188395?utm_medium=rss Unfortunately the parrallels are the same in detention centres run in this country.

]]> Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:37:49 UTC 2188395 Dr Felicity de Zulueta [Signature #235] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2187484?utm_medium=rss Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:26:53 UTC 2187484 Dr Kim Ehntholt [Signature #234] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2182476?utm_medium=rss Wed, 1 Aug 2007 07:04:53 UTC 2182476 Dr. Colin Aitken [Signature #233] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2180929?utm_medium=rss As a Medical Practitioner who has interviewed several survivors of torture I understand the vulnerability of those detained illegally and the need for those doctors with whom they meet to do even more than they would in ordinary practice to see themselves as and act as medical advocates for those so detained and within the accepted codes of medical ethics do only as the detainees would wish them to do and not as their detainers wish.

]]> Wed, 1 Aug 2007 04:59:16 UTC 2180929 DrN Nada Zakaria [Signature #232] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2162062?utm_medium=rss Thanks for your concern and humanity

]]> Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:14:46 UTC 2162062 Dr William John Kalk [Signature #231] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2158182?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:13:30 UTC 2158182 Dr Anirban Majumdar [Signature #230] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2157607?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:16:15 UTC 2157607 ms neda zaman [Signature #229] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2151667?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:45:43 UTC 2151667 Mr Olufunso Adedeji [Signature #228] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2148987?utm_medium=rss Powerful people have to be held accountable for breaches of human rights. The weak have to be protected at all cost especially when the powerful are the accusers, the jury and the judge.

]]> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:40:53 UTC 2148987 Dr Asif Naleem [Signature #227] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2144713?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:56:51 UTC 2144713 dr mark thomas heafield [Signature #226] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2144687?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 Jul 2007 07:44:43 UTC 2144687 Dr. Johannes Schwarz [Signature #225] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2144380?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:01:03 UTC 2144380 Prof. Dr. Matthias Dose [Signature #224] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2144055?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:09:19 UTC 2144055 Dr Diane Dakin [Signature #223] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2143988?utm_medium=rss Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:20:17 UTC 2143988 Dr Adam Booth [Signature #222] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2134617?utm_medium=rss Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:07:24 UTC 2134617 Dr Nazia Rashid [Signature #221] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2134405?utm_medium=rss As responsible health professionals it is our duty to account ourselves, our profession and colleagues. Hence, i feel it is important we highlight the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo. This is to ensure that their human rights are not violated, especially by health professionals, who take an oath to protect lives and treat patients with humanity and care.

]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:44:06 UTC 2134405 Mr David Hocken MS FRCS [Signature #220] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2133745?utm_medium=rss This issue remains an appalling example of human rights abuse. It worries me daily.

]]> Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:52:28 UTC 2133745 Dr Anonymous [Signature #219] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2132376?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:03:24 UTC 2132376 Dr Geraint Davies [Signature #218] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2132055?utm_medium=rss Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:05:49 UTC 2132055 Dr Maureen Douglas [Signature #217] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2122399?utm_medium=rss Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:19:17 UTC 2122399 Dr Brendan O'Reilly [Signature #216] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2121932?utm_medium=rss Congratulations of this petition.

]]> Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:06:31 UTC 2121932 Dr David O'Neill [Signature #215] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2120364?utm_medium=rss Imposing some medical procedure on a patient who has given explicit instruction not to do so and who is competent to make an informed decision based on an understanding of the consequences of the lack of intervention constitutes assault and violates the ethical basis of the contract forged between a patient and a physician.

]]> Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:52:57 UTC 2120364 Dr Robert Dawe [Signature #214] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2120360?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:50:50 UTC 2120360 Dr farrah khan [Signature #213] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2120292?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:20:41 UTC 2120292 Dr Shereen Tadros [Signature #212] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2120290?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:20:04 UTC 2120290 Dr Clare Gardner [Signature #211] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2120163?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:16:16 UTC 2120163 Mr Ian Stewart [Signature #210] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2120156?utm_medium=rss Sun, 15 Jul 2007 04:11:20 UTC 2120156 Mr Amar Wahid [Signature #209] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2116767?utm_medium=rss I am training to join a noble profession that works to improve the standard of and sustain a good level of health and the well being of people. The way innocent human beings are treated in guantanemo is not only disgraceful and a source of shame for those who condone it in moral terms, it is also a complete disaster in medical terms if the very profession i have described above is used to torture people, both physically and mentally and treat them as less than human. its literally a disgrace.

]]> Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:54:27 UTC 2116767 dr shuja chaudhry [Signature #208] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2112082?utm_medium=rss Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:12:11 UTC 2112082 Dr Abu Elas [Signature #207] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2109070?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:55:46 UTC 2109070 dr ali ajaz [Signature #206] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2108969?utm_medium=rss Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:30:01 UTC 2108969 Dr Faisal Goni [Signature #205] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2108152?utm_medium=rss I commend Dr Nicholl for taking this moral stand against tyrrany, oppression, and injustice.

]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:15:13 UTC 2108152 DR ansar mahmood [Signature #204] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2107992?utm_medium=rss Guantanamo: One of the largest afronts to democracy, ethics and the rule of law in the world today.

]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:01:04 UTC 2107992 Dr Ameen Kamlana [Signature #203] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2107937?utm_medium=rss There can never be peace without justice

]]> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:32:30 UTC 2107937 Dr Sakib Burza [Signature #202] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2105661?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Jul 2007 02:58:21 UTC 2105661 Mr Ibrar Majid [Signature #201] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2105274?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:19:02 UTC 2105274 Dr. Thomas Gasser [Signature #200] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2094363?utm_medium=rss Sun, 8 Jul 2007 01:43:37 UTC 2094363 Dr Ben Goldacre [Signature #199] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2086378?utm_medium=rss Hi, i'm a (v junior) medical doctor and i do the Bad Science column in the GUardian, and run badscience.net, i'll try and find a way to weave this in to one or the other soon.

]]> Thu, 5 Jul 2007 05:01:18 UTC 2086378 Dr Syed Hussain [Signature #198] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2082822?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Jul 2007 06:12:22 UTC 2082822 Mr Tim Matthews [Signature #197] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2071947?utm_medium=rss Mon, 2 Jul 2007 09:40:01 UTC 2071947 Dr Jonathan Fluxman [Signature #196] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2071253?utm_medium=rss Mon, 2 Jul 2007 06:18:42 UTC 2071253 Dr Sean Cross [Signature #195] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2059453?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:20:27 UTC 2059453 Dr Robert Clements [Signature #194] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2054627?utm_medium=rss Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:53:39 UTC 2054627 Dr Shabbir Mohamed [Signature #193] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2053286?utm_medium=rss It is criminal that doctors should be complicit in torturing fellow human beings. This goes against the first principle of medicine - do no harm.
As a society, we all need to condemn such actions and stand up for universal human rights. Otherwise we are doing the job of the terrorists for them.

]]> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:55:36 UTC 2053286 Dr Patricia Fowlie [Signature #192] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2052950?utm_medium=rss The involvement of doctors in condoning or participating in torture or capital punishment is completely immoral.

]]> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:42:45 UTC 2052950 Dr Imtiaz Ahmed [Signature #191] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2049732?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:08:13 UTC 2049732 DR LINDA RIPLEY [Signature #190] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2048321?utm_medium=rss Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:15:53 UTC 2048321 Dr Dalvina E Hanu-Cernat [Signature #189] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2045567?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:30:05 UTC 2045567 Dr Sameena Shakoor [Signature #188] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2044857?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:21:20 UTC 2044857 Dr Matthew Colyer [Signature #187] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2044683?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:45:21 UTC 2044683 Dr Harold Letsoalo [Signature #186] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2044511?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:15:26 UTC 2044511 Dr William Hopkins [Signature #185] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2044445?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:05:57 UTC 2044445 Dr Anonymous [Signature #184] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2044404?utm_medium=rss I have opted to 'sign' anonymously because I have no first hand knowledge about the conditions in Guantanamo, so I do not feel qualified to make any specific comment. However, I am completely opposed to prisoner-abuse, so wish to offer support to the general concept. I hope this makes sense

]]> Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:02:06 UTC 2044404 Dr Saket SINGHAL [Signature #183] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2044251?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:35:55 UTC 2044251 Dr Helen McColl [Signature #182] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2044111?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:12:55 UTC 2044111 Dr David Manovitch [Signature #181] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2043473?utm_medium=rss If US doctors are colluding with maltreatment then they are just like the Soviet doctors who did this in the past regarding political prisoners. I don't recall the US refraining from condemning this practice nor US physicians.

]]> Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:09:45 UTC 2043473 Dr ravikumar kakanur [Signature #180] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2042677?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:36:26 UTC 2042677 Dr Richard Thompson FRCP [Signature #179] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2042552?utm_medium=rss I wholeheartedly agree that medical involvement in torture is to be deplored, and those involved should be sanctioned.

]]> Mon, 25 Jun 2007 04:13:29 UTC 2042552 dr simon morris [Signature #178] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2042031?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:48:52 UTC 2042031 Dr Shanika Samarasekera [Signature #177] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2041950?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:36:31 UTC 2041950 Professor Ildefonso Hernández-Aguado [Signature #176] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2041894?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:29:02 UTC 2041894 Dr Bruce Day [Signature #175] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2041535?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:12:32 UTC 2041535 Dr Asad Luqmani [Signature #174] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2037684?utm_medium=rss The US and UK governments must first acknowledge that these atrocities have taken place and then take immediate steps to stop any further similar events, punish those responsible and give appropriate retribution to the victims and their families.

]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2007 06:49:09 UTC 2037684 Dr Nazia Rashid [Signature #173] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2035904?utm_medium=rss The world stopped apartheid so we should take the responsibility to stop the torture of the detainees at Gutanamo. Frankly the medical professionals at gutanamo should know better.

]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2007 01:43:29 UTC 2035904 Dr. Margaret Moran [Signature #172] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2035711?utm_medium=rss Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:29:42 UTC 2035711 Dr David Williams [Signature #171] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2034790?utm_medium=rss Medical ethics and the rule of law are inescapable where ever there are people.

]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:10:15 UTC 2034790 Dr Khalid Hasan [Signature #170] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2034735?utm_medium=rss If doctors cannot defend the rights of patients and be their advocate then they a guilty of a breach of duty. Falsifying records is a fraudulent act. I am happy to sign this letter.

]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:46:43 UTC 2034735 Mr Irfan Bukhari [Signature #169] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2034690?utm_medium=rss Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:27:07 UTC 2034690 Dr Fabrizio Di Stani [Signature #168] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2034544?utm_medium=rss Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:38:17 UTC 2034544 Mr Abdullah Farani [Signature #167] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2034429?utm_medium=rss Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:52:47 UTC 2034429 Dr. Anonymous [Signature #166] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2032335?utm_medium=rss You want to protect Human Rights all over the world except close to home in Guantanamo and all this in the name of Democracy and Justice.

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:31:30 UTC 2032335 Mr N Saddique [Signature #165] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2032302?utm_medium=rss Close GITMO

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:22:51 UTC 2032302 Mr Uthman Zafar [Signature #164] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2032233?utm_medium=rss Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:05:28 UTC 2032233 Mr Al-Rehan Dhanji [Signature #163] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2032131?utm_medium=rss Fri, 22 Jun 2007 12:40:30 UTC 2032131 Dr Wayne Jansen [Signature #162] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2031769?utm_medium=rss Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:07:48 UTC 2031769 Ms Saleha Sayeed [Signature #161] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2031399?utm_medium=rss Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:59:48 UTC 2031399 Dr Yasmeen Hasnain [Signature #160] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2030603?utm_medium=rss To any medical colleagues involved in nefarious activities - remember the hippocratic oath we all took as docs and the trust a detainee has in the medical professional - don't abuse it!

]]> Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:02:36 UTC 2030603 Dr Rhodri Huws [Signature #159] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2029362?utm_medium=rss Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:07:59 UTC 2029362 Dr Michael Peel [Signature #158] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2023376?utm_medium=rss Senior Medical Examiner, Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:48:06 UTC 2023376 Dr Tom Marrs [Signature #157] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2020239?utm_medium=rss We have to challenge ourselves to become aware of international ethical responsibilities when working in highly varied environments. This responsibility is the glue that unites our profession.

]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:11:46 UTC 2020239 dr Asim Farooq [Signature #156] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2019931?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:03:38 UTC 2019931 Dr Jim Murray [Signature #155] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2017695?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:54:48 UTC 2017695 Dr Mahomed Aslam Sathar [Signature #154] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2017265?utm_medium=rss The world should never have allowed Guantanamo to happen. We have failed them. I sit on the local IRB to ensure that what happened to Steve Biko will never happen again in this country. My concern is the emerging "new colonialism" in medical reserach that entraps our large vulnerable populations who suffered under Apartheid and who still accept authority without question. I am also concerned that very few South African have signed this petition - but there's always HOPE.

]]> Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:02:35 UTC 2017265 Dr Sohail Ahmed [Signature #153] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2016249?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:10:10 UTC 2016249 Prof Jens Mielke [Signature #152] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2015340?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jun 2007 03:28:31 UTC 2015340 Prof Leslie London [Signature #151] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2014790?utm_medium=rss It is a travesty that the profession has failed to speak out against abuses of vulnerable detainees, particularly in relation to medical complicity. Dual loyalty of health professionals is the cause of much of the problem and requires guidelines that protect the human rights of patients and vulnerable groups ahead of third party interests, consistent with human rights principles.

]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:28:50 UTC 2014790 Dr ahsan ahmed [Signature #150] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2014730?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:07:41 UTC 2014730 Dr Donatella Ottaviani [Signature #149] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2014364?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:36:22 UTC 2014364 Dr Judith Cook [Signature #148] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2014320?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:28:17 UTC 2014320 Dr Mohammed Shafiq [Signature #147] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2013978?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:21:13 UTC 2013978 Dr. Amitrajit Saha [Signature #146] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2013973?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jun 2007 09:19:43 UTC 2013973 Dr Nazia Peer [Signature #145] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2013810?utm_medium=rss Guantanamo prisoners are suffering and it is a crime against humanity

]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:42:08 UTC 2013810 Dr Andrew Lux [Signature #144] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2012761?utm_medium=rss Consultant in Paediatric Neurology
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
(UK) General Medical Council registration number 3248847

Thank you for your work on this petition. I hope that it has the desired impact.

Best wishes. Andrew Lux

]]> Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:08:01 UTC 2012761 Dr. Bongani M Mayosi [Signature #143] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2012714?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:33:38 UTC 2012714 Dr. Roberta Springer Loewy, PhD [Signature #142] https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/2012651?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:53:59 UTC 2012651