A Guantánamo prisoner says the Obama administraton has become increasingly brutal in its attempts to break a hunger strike by more than 100 of Guantánamo’s 166 prisoners. Shaker Aamer, a British resident who has been cleared for release from Guantánamo twice in the past six years, told the head of the legal charity Reprieve prison authorities are making cells “freezing cold” and employing metal-tipped feeding tubes that cause prisoners to vomit during twice-daily force-feedings. In the interview, obtained by The Observer newspaper, Aamer said one prisoner had a tube pushed into his lungs instead of his stomach, causing him to cough blood. He said: “The administration is getting ever more angry and doing everything they can to break our hunger strike. Honestly, I wish I was dead.” Aamer has spent more than 11 years without trial inside Guantánamo.