Testimony of torture survivor Sheila Cassidy
- Title
- Testimony of torture survivor Sheila Cassidy
- Genre
- Speech
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1975
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- Duration
- 00:03:16
- Description
- Testimony of doctor Sheila Cassidy, who was held and tortured in the Tres Alamos and Cuatro Alamos prison camps in Chile after treating a political opponent of the regime. She speaks of her misgivings about giving evidence, and her decision that she must. She talks about her own experience of electrical torture and the torture methods used against other women.
- Contributors
- Sheila Cassidy
- Keywords
- Political prisoners; Human rights violations; Medical ethics; Women; Imprisonment; Concentration camps; Torture; Chile; Doctors; Sheila Cassidy
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LBC/IRN, "Testimony of torture survivor Sheila Cassidy". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0005400025002 (Accessed 29 May 2025)