UK: British Doctor Sheila Cassidy Details Charges Of Torture by the Chilean Police
January 5, 1976, Page 8Buy Reprints
LONDON, Jan. 4—A British surgeon who said last week that Chilean authorities had tortured her during her imprisonment in a Santiago jail today detailed her charges.
The doctor, 37‐yearold Sheila Cassidy, who plans to become a nun, was released last week after being held for 59 days in Chilean jails for having treated a wounded guerrilla leader. Chilean authorities in Santiago and London have strongly denied the torture allegation.
Dr. Cassidy's charges were reported in an article in the mass circulation Sunday Mirror in which she was quoted extensively. They echoed the comments she made last week when she arrived in London after strong British pressure on the Chilean Government to release her. The British Foreign Office has accepted her story and called home the Ambassador to Chile, Reginald L. Secondé.
Today's detailed allegations included Dr. Cassidy's sketches of her prison cell and of her ordeal there. One sketch showed her spreadeagled on the springs of an iron, bunk bed, her shoulders, wrists, stomach and ankles strapped to the frame. She said that every time policemen administered electric shocks, they forced a towel into her mouth so that her screams could not be heard.
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