Thursday, May 16, 2013

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







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-prison-hunger-strike/



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