Vincent Iacopino is an American doctor, who has specialized in the after-effects of

torture Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including corporal punishment, punishment, forced confession, extracting a confession, interrogational torture, interrogation for information, or intimid ...

. He is the author or co-author of several books on torture, or that address topics related to torture. He came up with the idea of the Istanbul Protocol. In 2001 Iacopino wrote a manual on recognizing and treating torture victims for the

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. Iacopino published a paper entitled ''"Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series"'' in April 2011. On February 5, 2013, Iacopino testified, by video link, at the

Guantanamo Military Commission The Guantanamo military commissions were established by President George W. Bush through a military order on November 13, 2001, to try certain non-citizen terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison. To date, there have been a total of eight ...

in the case of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri who is accused of involvement in the

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. Iacopino was asked on how to conduct a no-harm medical examination on Nashiri who was subject of what is described as a mock execution and who was

waterboarded Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water torture, water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the person to experience the sensation of drowning. In the most common method ...

by the

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twice. On February 7, in response to a Prosecution request James Pohl, the Presiding Officer of al Nashiri's Military Commission ordered that a panel of mental health experts examine Al Nashiri. The Defense, in turn, argued that panel should take advice from Iacopino, on how to interview Al Nashiri without causing additional damage. On March 28, 2016, Spencer Ackerman, writing in ''

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'', broke an account of how, although the CIA had illegally destroyed its extensive library of video tapes documenting the torture of the men and boys it had apprehended through its covert "snatch teams", it still retained humiliating naked photos of bruised and beaten captives that observers described as "gruesome". Iacopino was widely cited as an expert on torture who stated that humiliating captives by taking photos of them, while naked, was a form of sexual humiliation which could be considered a form of torture. According to Camila Vargax of '' Latercera'', Iacopino called for an investigation, from international authorities, to determine whether the photos were a war crime.

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