US psychologists to take stand on military torture tactics

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SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — The American Psychological Association will decide Sunday whether to condemn torture tactics and place a moratorium on members' involvement in interrogations at US military detention sites.

The decision, if taken, would move the world's largest professional organization of psychologists in line with similar resolutions by the American Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association and boost pressure on the US government's alleged torture of "war on terror" detainees.

"We have no business in places where detainees are being held indefinitely, in isolation, in violation of international human rights," said APA member Steve Reisner of the International Trauma Studies Program at Columbia University.

APA council representatives...