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Over a Dozen Guantanamo Detainees on Hunger Strike

HeadlineApr 09, 2007

More than a dozen detainees at Guantanamo are engaged in a long-term hunger strike and are now being force-fed. The prisoners are being strapped into restraint chairs while they are fed by plastic tubes inserted through their nostrils. One of the hunger strikers is Sami al-Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who has been held at Guantanamo for nearly five years. Lawyers say as many as 40 detainees are refusing to eat to protest the harsh conditions at the new maximum security section of Guantanamo known as Camp 6. One hunger striker told his attorney, “My wish is to die. We are living in a dying situation.”

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