Sondra Crosby
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Sondra Crosby is an American medical doctor and Professor of Medicine at Boston University, specialising in internal medicine.[1] She is also a faculty member of the Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights department at the Boston University School of Public Health.
Crosby is notable for being one of the first doctors allowed to travel to Guantanamo to independently examine Guantanamo captives.
Crosby is notable for serving as the director of medical care at the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights. She examined over 300 torture victims at the Center.[2]
Crosby is one of the authors of "Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by the US", published by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). According to PHR, Crosby has "written over 200 affidavits documenting medical and psychological sequelae of torture."
In October 2009 Crosby submitted an affidavit following her examination of Guantanamo's longest term hunger striker, Abdul Rahman Shalabi. She stated that if he didn't receive more calories he would die. Crosby was one of the first doctors outside the DoD who was allowed to examine Guantanamo captives.
In October 2012 Crosby wrote a letter about Tariq al-Sawah's medical condition to camp authorities. Crosby had examined al-Sawah on two occasions and described him as morbidly obese, and laid out a treatment plan. His lawyer, Lieutenant Colonel Sean Gleason, said in March 2013 that camp authorities had declined to treat al-Sawah, and wouldn't even release his medical records.
In January 2018, Crosby travelled to the Ecuadorean embassy in London to examine Julian Assange.[3]
On 24 September 2020, Professor Crosby gave evidence at the extradition hearing of Julian Assange at the Old Bailey in London. Craig Murray reported:
- The final witness was Dr Sondra Crosby, as the doctor who had been treating Julian since his time in the Ecuadorean Embassy. Dr Crosby seemed a wonderful person and while her evidence was very compelling, again I see no strong reason to reveal it.[4]
References
- ↑ "Boston University Prof Sondra Crosby: Dentists Should Refuse to Help ICE Determine Migrants’ Ages"
- ↑ "Dr Sondra Crosby is the Director of Medical Services at the BCRHHR"
- ↑ "Julian Assange's health in 'dangerous' condition, say doctors"
- ↑ Document:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 17
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