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263 doctors call to stop force-feeding prisoners

(10 Mar 2006) London, United Kingdom - 10 March 2006 1. Set up shot of Dr Jenny Vaughan typing on laptop computer 2. Close-up of Vaughan's face 3. Computer screen showing Lancet article 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Jenny Vaughan, General Practitioner and one of the 250 signatories to the Lancet letter: "There are anything in excess of a hundred detainees, who've expressed the wish that they want to go on hunger strike because of the conditions that they're held in and that these people are not being allowed to express this wish. They are being put into restraint chairs, they are having these feeding tubes pushed into them by medical staff and they are having no say in that this is just happening. And therefore that is torture. Now interestingly the American government has been trying to redefine torture. All the way through the ages from the rack in the Middles Ages we understand what torture means, torture is not just a bodily death or multiple organ failure, which as I understand it is what the American government is trying to get it defined as. We all really understand what torture constitutes, it's a procedure usually associated with significant discomfort done against someone's will and this is exactly what's happening here and doctors in Guantanamo are colluding with this. And I think it is important as a physician to speak out against this because it is in direct contravention of people's human rights." 5. Over the shoulder shot of Vaughan typing on laptop computer 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Jenny Vaughan, General Practitioner and one of the 250 signatories to the Lancet letter: "As a physician, I was very concerned with the reports of what is actually force feeding occurring in Guantanamo Bay and there is no dispute about that, the American government accepts that force feeding is taking place. I don't have a feeding tube to show you here but, for anybody who is not familiar with this, this is a thick plastic tube which is inserted through the nose down into the throat, down into the stomach tube. And it is not comfortable. I have had one of these tubes placed myself when I was performing an experiment. To put the tube in the detainees would also be put into a restraint chair in cold isolation. These tubes are being put in in the context of a hunger strike. As a physician, if I have any patient who refuses a treatment it is my job to respect that decision. A lot of people remember what happened to the hunger strikers, the Irish hunger strikers, they actually were allowed to die. This is actually the complete opposite about this. This is inserting a feeding tube against somebody's will, into them, and that constitutes torture." FILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - 6 July 2005 7. Gate of Camp Delta detention facility 8. Detainee standing in doorway 9. Detainee walking away from camera 10. Wide of Camp Delta 11. Close up barbed wire atop fence 12. Close up of detainee walking 13. Wide of fence STORYLINE: An international group of doctors called on the US military on Friday to stop force feeding detainees who have staged hunger strikes at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. In a letter to the medical journal The Lancet, 263 doctors from Britain, Ireland, the United States, Germany, Australia, Italy and the Netherlands also appealed to the American Medical Association, which endorses a World Medical Association ban on the force feeding of patients. The World Medical Association says a prisoner should not be forcibly fed if a doctor believes they are capable of "unimpaired and rational judgment" to refuse treatment. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...