The landmark report, Winds of Death, is published. Torture Concerned with alleged physician involvement in torture in Argentina, PHR urges the creation of a tribunal to investigate. In Paraguay, PHR assesses the mental health of a prominent political prisoner held for thirty years. PHR Grows Membership reaches 1,000. Grants from several major donors help PHR begin to develop financial self-sufficiency and broader development efforts.
Staff doubles from two to four.
Syria PHR campaigns for the release of ninety health professionals detained in Syria since 1980. In Tbilisi, a PHR team determines that toxic gas was used in attacks on political demonstrators. PHR members later appear on Georgian television to quell panic among civilians, many of whom were ailing not from exposure to the gas but from conversion symptoms and stress. El Salvador PHR finds widespread violations of medical neutrality, including violence and threats against health workers, and publishes a major report on its findings and a special article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Israel PHR conducts a second autopsy of a Palestinian prisoner who died while in custody.