Guantanamo Strikers' Force-Feeding Adapted to Ramadan
Campaigners demonstrating force-feeding being unethical
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.
The pair of foreign terrorism suspects have refused food for more than a year in order to protest their indefinite detention without charge at the controversial U.S. prison, which holds more than 400 al Qaeda and Taliban suspects.
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...
The Eid al Fitr, was served twice because some detainees did not believe the month had ended and fasted an extra day because they thought the U.S. military was trying to trick them...
Source: Reuters via Alertnet.org
The pair of foreign terrorism suspects have refused food for more than a year in order to protest their indefinite detention without charge at the controversial U.S. prison, which holds more than 400 al Qaeda and Taliban suspects.
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...
The Eid al Fitr, was served twice because some detainees did not believe the month had ended and fasted an extra day because they thought the U.S. military was trying to trick them...
Source: Reuters via Alertnet.org
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