Presentations at the IAFS Conference, September 2011 Istanbul Protocol Based Investigations of Torture Allegations At the world’s largest forensic conference, IAFS, forensic documentation of torture featured prominently. Prior to the conference, the IRCT held a symposium titled “Istanbul Protocol Based Investigations of Torture Allegations” that provided a forum for forensic scientists and physicians, from disciplines ranging from forensic pathologists to forensic anthropologists, to present their investigations using the Istanbul Protocol. These presentations exemplify a mere handful of the scientific and forensic research currently being conducted in cases involving torture allegations. Added value of functional imaging in forensic medicine Dr Siroos Mirzaei, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Vienna, Austria Structural brain abnormalities common to posttraumatic stress disorder and depression Mr Marijn Kroes, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Netherlands General information on asphyxiation methods and experience, issues on forensic documentation of asphyxiation allegations Dr Jonathan Beynon, International Expert on Monitoring Detention and Prevention of Torture, Geneva, Switzerland Value of bone scintigraphy in investigations of torture allegations Dr Ümit Unuvar, Forensic Pathologist, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey Molecular biomarkers for stress-related disorders Prof Witte Hoogendijk, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands Neuropsychiatric Evidence of Waterboarding and Other Abusive Treatments Dr Stephan Xenakis, M.D. Brigadier General (Ret), U.S. Army The External Examination in Asphyxial Death Dr Anny Sauvegeau, MD MSc, Chief Medical Examiner, Alberta, Canada Carlos R. Mauricio, Executive Director of The Stop Impunity Project, is joined by (left to right) Lilla Hardi, Director of Cordelia Foundation of Hungary, Brita Sydhoff, Secretary-General of the IRCT, and Carlos Jibaja, Director of Centro de Atención Psicosocial, Peru, during a conference on “Forensic Evidence in the Fight Against Torture” at the Washington College of Law at American University. The conference was among many attended by experts and partners of the IRCT to emphasize the use of medico-legal documentation in cases of torture allegations. 16 International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims