User:Geo Swan/Guantanamo/Guantanamo medical records

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There has been a long-standing controversy over granting Guantanamo captives' lawyers access to their clients' Guantanamo medical records.

2004 reports that medical staff were sharing medical records with interrogators
In 2004 reports surfaced that Guantanamo medical staff were sharing medical records with interrogators, in order to assist in the captives interrogations. This practice was criticized as being in conflict to the widely accepted medical ethics standards.

Individual captives requests for medical records to document their claims of abuse
Certain captives' attorneys' were seeking access to their medical records as early as 2005.

During 2005 Attorneys for 17 Yemeni captives in Guantanamo sought their medical records in order to document their force-feeding.

Candace Gorman's requests for medical records
Candace Gorman, attorney for Abdul Al Ghazzawi, and another captive, requested access for years to the medical records of her clients, because she couldn't help noticing alarming declines in their health.

Mohammed Jawad's missing medical records
Former Prosecutor Darrel Vandeveld resigned when he found exculpatory evidence in favor of Mohammed Jawad's innocence was being withheld from his defense attorneys. He found exculpatory evidence was being withheld from him.

Zuhair
Ahmed Zaid Salim Zuhair, a long running hunger striker.

Walid
In 2008 Jennifer Daskal and Stacy Sullivan reported on a captive named Walid who was suffering delusion.

Medical records of the apparent suicide victims
According to camp authorities five Guantanamo captives committed suicide. Their medical records indicate that they were long-term hunger strikers.

2016 rectal repair
On October 2016 former CIA captive al-Hawsawi, who had been suffering from extremely painful rectal prolapse finally had surgery to try to repair his lower GI.