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Guantanamo detainee says prison 'shakedown' sparked hunger strike
Source: Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo-strike-20130504,0,970521.story
Guantanamo detainee says prison 'shakedown' sparked hunger strike
An Afghan gives a detailed account of prison conditions in a declassified affidavit. He says
U.S. guards in a February raid confiscated detainees' personal items and roughly handled
Korans.
By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
May 4, 2013
WASHINGTON — Obaidullah, an Afghan villager captured with diagrams of improvised bombs, has marked nearly 11 years as a detainee at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Three months ago, outraged by what he called another prison "shakedown," he joined a hunger strike there, and now is locked in solitary confinement with at least 100 fellow detainees.
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His observations are the most extensive yet by a detainee about conditions at the military prison and what prompted the hunger strike. He and others tell of a Feb. 6 search when guards confiscated toiletries, family pictures and copies of the Koran. For the detainees, the trigger was "U.S. soldiers rifling through the pages of many Korans and handling them roughly."
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An Afghan gives a detailed account of prison conditions in a declassified affidavit. He says
U.S. guards in a February raid confiscated detainees' personal items and roughly handled
Korans.
By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times
May 4, 2013
WASHINGTON — Obaidullah, an Afghan villager captured with diagrams of improvised bombs, has marked nearly 11 years as a detainee at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Three months ago, outraged by what he called another prison "shakedown," he joined a hunger strike there, and now is locked in solitary confinement with at least 100 fellow detainees.
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His observations are the most extensive yet by a detainee about conditions at the military prison and what prompted the hunger strike. He and others tell of a Feb. 6 search when guards confiscated toiletries, family pictures and copies of the Koran. For the detainees, the trigger was "U.S. soldiers rifling through the pages of many Korans and handling them roughly."
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Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gitmo-strike-20130504,0,970521.story
