U.S.: No Outside Contact for Detainees

WASHINGTON (AP) - Terror suspects on a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay facility should not be allowed to speak in person or by telephone with relatives and friends because of security risks, the government argued in federal court on Friday.

Attorneys for a group of hunger strikers said the detainees might be persuaded through such discussions to resume eating and drinking. The inmates have pledged to starve themselves to death unless they are released or brought to trial after more than three years at the U.S. facility in Cuba.

Terry Henry, an attorney for the Department of Justice, told U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler that one relative tried sending a detainee a DVD that named various people who had died or were in jail, raising concerns about whether some kind of message was being sent. The disc was not cleared and not delivered to the detainee.

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given no indication of if or when they will be released or even tried, it's no wonder that the prisoners are resorting to desperate means.

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