Update....Guantanamo could stay open under NDAA 2014 // Gitmo detainees demand justice through hunger

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Guantanamo could stay open under NDAA 2014

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Published on 5 Jun 2013


On Tuesday, The House Arms Services Committee began considering the National
Defense Authorization Act of 2014. The bill will appropriate funding to the US military
this coming fiscal year and includes provisions dealing with the controversial
Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba and its detainees. RT's Sam Sacks joins us
to discuss the NDAA.

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Gitmo detainees demand justice through hunger

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Published on 3 Jun 2013


It has been more than three months since detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention
facility began participating in a massive hunger strike. Now 13 inmates involved in the
protest have written a letter to their military doctors demanding better treatment and
are requesting a non-military physician to assess their health. The detainees believe
that their acts will lead to justice after nearly a decade of imprisonment. Human rights
attorney David Remes, who represents several of the detainees, brings us more.

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Starving for Freedom: GITMO detainees sue US over force feeding


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Published on 2 Jul 2013


Four inmates at the Guantanamo detention center are suing the American government
over the facility's force-feeding procedure, claiming it is inhumane and a violation of
their human rights. Force feeding was introduced as a method of combating the ongoing
hunger strike. More than 40 prisoners are receiving food through nasal tubes, with a
total of 106 participating in the hunger strike. Robert Naiman, policy director at the
Just Foreign Policy think tank, says US officials have no right to force feed the detainees,
just like they don't have a right to hold them despite being cleared for release.

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Where is the rights for the people they have killed, if it was turned around It would be a different matter. Exploiting the situation that's what it is.

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Where is the rights for the people they have killed, if it was turned around It would be a different matter. Exploiting the situation that's what it is.



Its not clear many of them have killed anyone, some of them were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, sold for bounty or
picked up in sweeps. Thats why they are not in the US or being put on trial.