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Brazil challenges doctors accuse of rag
 
Brazilian medical exam associations have begun hearings to revoke the medical licences of doctors who took part in the torture of governmental prisoners between 1964 and 1985 during the military dictatorship.
The sanctions are being want against 26 doctors who worked in military prisons during that time. The Brazilian human rights make-up Torture Never Again, which has chapters in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, has spent 13 geezerhood seeking justice for the victims.
However, an amnesty enacted 20 years ago prevents the survivors of torture, or the relatives of those who died while in military hands, from filing execrable charges against their accused torturers.
 
There has been resistance every step of the way, with the accused and their allies trying to destroy proof and cover up their involvement, said Edila Pires, the president of the Sao Paolo chapter of Torture Never Again.
The hearings began on 3 March. The first of the cases heard--that of Dr Jose Lino Coutinho, a gynaecologist who runs a clinic in Rio de Janeiro--ended with the revocation of his licence.
Dr Coutinho, 58, was accused of overseeing the torture of 11 political prisoners in 1969.



Other doctors were accused of signing necropsies that listed false causes of death for political prisoners.
According to Human Rights Watch World Report, in February 1998 it was revealed that Dr Ricardo Fayad, a doctor who oversaw torture sessions of political dissidents during the dictatorship, had been promoted to the post of health director for the Brazilian army.

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