Iran Force-Feeds Iranian-American Journalist

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Iran Force-Feeds Iranian-American Journalist
by Aopisa Ciopobi
April 27, 2009
The Associated Press

TEHRAN>> - Twice a day in an Iranian prision, Roxana Saberi is strapped down in a padded restraint chair, and a flexible yellow tube is inserted through her nose and throat. Milky nutritional supplements, mixed with water and olive oil to add calories and ease constipation, pours into her stomach.

Saberi, Iranian-American journalist who was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment this month on charges of spying for Washington, has become weak after seven days of a hunger strike, her father Reza Saberi said Monday.

Roxana Saberi started a hunger strike last week to protest her sentence and has demanded to be released. Her incarceration has become a new source of tension between Iran and the United States.

The restraint chair used to force feed Saberi is a practice borrowed from the U.S. military, which has used to force feed hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay since at least 2007. Prisoners are strapped down and monitored to prevent vomiting until the supplements are digested.

The British human rights group Reprieve labeled the process "intentionally brutal," and Saberi, according to her lawyer's notes, said it is painful, "something you can't imagine.

The AP story above is NOT, repeat NOT true. Imagine how OUTRAGED Americans would be if it WERE. I created the article simply by taking an actual AP story about Saberi's hunger stike and merging it with another actual AP story about the U.S.'s force feeding of Gitmo detainees.

[MADem]

1. Well, this is a tough nut to crack. I'd be more outraged if they sent home her dead body. nt

[leveymg]

2. Photoshopping news - very creative use of mixed-media

You probably have what it takes to write for AP.

Watch this end up at the top of GOOGLE on the topic.

[Soylent Brice]

3. very creative, indeed.

surprised more people haven't commented on this yet.