100 Days of Hunger Strike: US no closer to Gitmo shutdown

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100 Days of Hunger Strike: US no closer to Gitmo shutdown

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Published on 16 May 2013


It's been exactly one hundred days since detainees at Guantanamo Bay camp started
their hunger strike. The official number of inmates refusing food has been increasing on
an almost daily basis - and has reached at least one hundred. Around thirty hunger-
strikers are being subjected to force-feeding - a controversial tactic condemned by the
UN and the international medical community as inhumane. And all those numbers are
only likely to grow. Because what started as a strike against mistreatment has turned
into a battle against indefinite detention and Washington's broken promises to close the
prison at the center of America's War on Terror. READ MORE:
http://rt.com/trends/guantanamo-priso...

http://rt.com/news/guantanamo-hunger-strike-100-336/

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Hunger Hell: Gitmo force-feeding in handcuffs 'medical aid, not torture'


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detainees' lawyers. So RT decided to explore why
exactly this procedure is causing outrage among
human rights organizations.

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Gitmo hunger strike: Day 100

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Published on 16 May 2013


Today marks the one-hundredth day of the hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay.
Roughly 130 of the 166 inmates in the military detention center are involved in a
protest against prison guards, who allegedly intimidate the detainees by searching
their personal belongings and deliberately mishandling their copies of the Koran.
Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to the Obama administration urging them to do more
to close the facility before she signed off as the secretary of state. In the memo,
she gave practical suggestions to start getting the ball rolling on the process,
including appointing a high-level official to be in charge of overseeing the effort. It
included transferring some detainees, releasing others and the prosecution of
some. If someone like Clinton can't convince the president to do more, who can?
David Remes, a human rights lawyer who has represented Gitmo detainees, joins
us to talk more on the presidential promises.

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Death the only exit: Gitmo hunger strike passed 100 days


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Published on 16 May 2013


The hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has now lasted 100 days with more than 100
prisoners participating in it. Ironically, iguanas are afforded more legal protections
at Guantanamo than the prisoner themselves. And, as the force-feedings continue,
pressure builds on President Obama who made a promise four years ago to close
down the facility. Political Commentator Sam Sacks talks with activists and former
Guantanamo Personnel about what options President Obama has to close the
facility as the hunger strikes hits a milestone.

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100 Days of Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Special Coverage

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Published on 16 May 2013


May 16 marks a dark milestone in the history of the world's most maligned prison -
100 days of a mass hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. Out of 166 inmates - 130
are on strike according to prisoners, while the military only admits to 102. At least
a third of them are being force fed - a procedure recognized by various medical
organizations as painful enough to constitute torture. And by all accounts - there's
no end in sight to the protest.

RT discusses the stand-off with former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, who's
now the Director of the Cageprisoners activist group, Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei, the
legal representative of 8 Guantanamo detainees, military attorney Lt. Col Barry
Wingard on the line from the detention camp, and Col. Morris Davis, former Chief
Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay.