GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE (Reuters) - U.S. medical officers at the Guantanamo Bay detention center adjusted the force-feeding schedule for two long-time hunger strikers so they could fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, doctors at the U.S. navy base said.
To prevent them from dying, the U.S. military had been force-feeding them with liquid nutrients administered twice a day via tubes inserted into their nostrils and down into their stomachs, doctors at the detainee hospital told journalists.
The two detainees being force-fed are the last holdouts of a hunger strike that included a fifth of the camp population in June this year. Medical personnel in early 2006 began strapping the hunger strikers into restraint chairs to prevent them from vomiting up the tube-fed liquid.
Detainees have said that the force-feeding caused unbearable pain and amounted to torture, and the practice has drawn sharp criticism from human rights groups. Medical associations have called it unethical.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061101/wl_nm/security_guantanamo_ramadan_dcI wasn't even aware that this was going on, of course I am not blind to what has happened at Guatanamo and I am glad that they at least respected these detainees' holiday.
I don't know if this has been mentioned before.
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