Gitmo detainee challenges force-feeding procedures

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Gitmo detainee challenges force-feeding procedures
| March 11, 2014 | Updated: March 11, 2014 2:39pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — A detainee at Guantanamo Bay is challenging force-feeding practices at the facility imposed on prisoners who go on hunger strikes.

In a court filing Tuesday, a 34-year-old Yemeni national who has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2002 alleges that detainees have been force-fed up to a gallon at a time of nutrient and water. Another detainee reported that feeding sessions have speeded up, compressed into as little as 20 minutes.

The filing by lawyers for Emad Abdullah Hassan follows a federal appeals court ruling last month that left the door open for detainees to go to court over confinement conditions.

At the Justice Department, spokeswoman Allison Price said the court filing is being reviewed.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/Gitmo-detainee-challenges-force-feeding-procedures-5307540.php

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Soooo..gitmo still not closed, I take it?

So much for promises.

[JoeyT]

2. And we're still torturing people.

Pretty much every anti-torture advocacy group on the planet considers force-feeding to be a form of torture. We insist it isn't, but we insisted water boarding isn't torture too.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R