After a lengthy legal battle, the Obama administration has given a court redacted versions of eight videotapes showing force-feedings of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. The Guardian reports the Justice Department’s disclosure came nearly a year after a federal judge first ordered the disclosure of the eight tapes. An attorney for Abu Wa’el Dhiab, one of the prisoners whose force-feeding is shown on the tapes, called them a “national scandal.” Dhiab’s attorneys and news outlets will now fight for the public to see the tapes.
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