Before revision: Whether or not they are employed by the police or the State, forensic doctors must understand their obligations to justice (not to the police or the State) and to the relatives of the deceased, so that a true account is provided of the cause of death and the circumstances surrounding it.The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, (New York/Geneva, 2017) para.44 Notes See also Autopsy Coroner Istanbul Protocol Physicians for Human Rights Further reading Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016) – Advance E-Version ICRC Guidelines for Investigating Deaths in Custody (2013) UN Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (1989) United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions, U.N. Doc.
After revision: Whether or not they are employed by the police or the State, forensic doctors must understand their obligations to justice (not to the police or the State) and to the relatives of the deceased, so that a true account is provided of the cause of death and the circumstances surrounding it.The Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016), Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, (New York/Geneva, 2017) para.44 Notes See also Autopsy Coroner Istanbul Protocol Physicians for Human Rights Further reading Minnesota Protocol on the Investigation of Potentially Unlawful Death (2016) ICRC Guidelines for Investigating Deaths in Custody (2013) UN Principles on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions (1989) United Nations Manual on the Effective Prevention and Investigation of Extra-Legal, Arbitrary and Summary Executions, U.N. Doc.