Hunger Strike Breaks Out at Guantánamo

Source: NY Times

A new, long-term hunger strike has broken out at the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, with more than a dozen detainees subjecting themselves to daily force-feeding to protest their treatment, military officials and lawyers for the detainees said.

Lawyers for several hunger strikers said their clients’ actions were driven by harsh conditions in a new maximum security complex to which about 160 prisoners have been moved since December.

The 13 detainees now on hunger strikes is the highest number to endure the force-feeding regimen on an extended basis since early 2006, when the military broke a long-running strike with a new policy of strapping prisoners into “restraint chairs” while they are fed by plastic tubes inserted through their nostrils.

The hunger strikers are now monitored so closely the they have virtually no chance to starve themselves. Yet their persistence underscores how the struggle between detainees and guards at Guantánamo has continued even as the military has tightened its control.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/08/us/08cnd-hunger.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

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Here is the affiliated Herald Times link as well....

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/08/news/gitmo.php

By definition, a force-feeding is forced, therefore the prison guards are subjecting the prisoners to force-feeding.

my how the NY Times' editorial standards have fallen. Really pathetic copy-editing.

as they said on Democracy Now this morning.

Enough with the Orwellian Newspeak.

this msm, good luck.

And even begin to Redeem Our National Soul.

There is no higher priority.

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