California State Legislature instructs health-care licensing boards to condemn torture


	California State Legislature instructs health-care licensing boards to condemn torture

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8-18-2008 12:39 AM

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California licensing boards are instructed to inform doctors and other health-care workers holding state licensures that any involvement or complicity in torture or coercive interrogations may result in prosecution.

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