Israeli physicians risk becoming, or may already be, complicit in torture and ill-treatment of detained Palestinians.
![Mohammed Al-Torok, a newly released Palestinian who was detained by the Israeli army and said he was tortured in the Israeli detention, receives treatment at a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip May 2, 2024. [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-05-02T122308Z_353408569_RC2CI7AVMM8M_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-DETAINEES-1714652719.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Marie Brasholt
Medical Director at DIGNITY –Danish Institute Against Torture
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Marie Brasholt is the Medical Director at DIGNITY –Danish Institute Against Torture and a specialist in public health and administrative medicine. She is a member of the UN Subcommittee for Prevention of Torture as well as the Danish National Preventive Mechanism and has visited prisons in many parts of the world. During visits, she focuses mainly on the health aspects of prevention of torture.
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