Military force-feeding 10 percent of Guantanamo detainees

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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Military_forcefeeding_10_percent_of_Guanatamo_0108.html


Ten percent of captives at the US Guantanamo Bay prison -- many of whom have never been charged of a crime -- are having their heads velcroed to chairs and forced to take in nutritional supplements by a tube forcibly inserted through their noses by US guards.

Twenty-five captives who've starved themselves for weeks are being fed through tubes in their noses, the US military admitted Thursday. Thirty detainees are currently on a hunger strike.

A lawyer for 17 Yemeni men told a Miami Herald reporter Thursday that the hunger strike was partly in response to the US decision to release Osama Bin Laden's driver Salim Hamdan in November. Hamdan was charged with supporting terrorism and was held just shy of his 66-month sentence; many of those on the hunger strike have never been charged with a crime.

''They've actually gone ballistic at the fact that Hamdan, who was convicted of supporting terrorism, was released and they, who have been charged with nothing, continue to languish there,'' Washington lawyer David Remes told Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg.
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force feeding is torture

america, a country that tortures

for how many more days?

[stillcool]

1. Gosh..such imagery today...

I sit here reading this stuff in the comfort of my home, like it's a bad novel. What a world.

[uppityperson]

2. k&r

[Mnemosyne]

3. No wonder so many are desperate to commit suicide. A couple years

ago there were three that "suicided" within minutes of each other.

What a country! :puke: