By Eric Posner
President Obama can lawfully release the detainees if he wants to. Congress has made it difficult, but not impossible. Whatever he s saying, the president does not want to close the detention center, at least not yet.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34821.htm
Briton in Guantánamo describes hunger strike
The last British resident to be held at Guantánamo Bay has described his experience of the hunger strike protest at the detention camp
http://is.gd/yOAvDs
Guantánamo hunger strike: prisoners being force fed
Video report
http://is.gd/sxj87Y
My Guantanamo Hunger Strike Hell
These are the chairs they use for force-feeding prisoners
By Shaker Aamer
I do sometimes worry that I am going to die in here. I hope I don t, but if the worst comes to the worst, I want my kids to know that I stood up for a principle.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34853.htm
Guantanamo detainees' lawyer describes force feeding
Audio
Click on part 2: ''There s never been a hunger strike of this scope or duration before at Guantanamo,'' lawyer says.
http://is.gd/cBvpXm
Outcry over Guantanamo grows, as does hunger strike
Free them or put them on trial. Thus urges a petition to President Barack Obama over the prisoners held at Guantanamo, jailed and in limbo for more than a decade.
http://is.gd/DfjQn6
Force-feeding Continues At Gitmo Gulag
Emaciated and frail, more than 100 men lie on concrete floors of freezing, solitary cells in Guantánamo, silently starving themselves to death.
http://is.gd/7ZSyLJ
Gulag that shames the West
Five years after Obama said he d shut it, over 100 prisoners, including a British resident, are still chained in Guantanamo. DAVID JONES went inside and was horrified by what he found.
http://is.gd/5bHYtY
Guantánamo Hunger Strikers Subject to Harsh New Method of Force Feeding
By Matt Williams
Guards are now subjecting inmates to humiliating body searches if they want to speak to lawyers.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34935.htm
The Deepening Shame of Guantanamo
By Ray McGovern
I do not advocate capital punishment, even for the likes of Gonzales and Addington.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34933.htm
Guantánamo doctors must refuse to force-feed hunger strikers: physicians
A group of senior American doctors has called on military physicians at Guantánamo Bay to refuse to work in a mass force-feeding programme that is being used to keep hunger-striking detainees alive.
http://is.gd/h8vKMe
From Information Clearing House
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Guantanamo Hunger Strike Forces Debate About Detention
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/05/06
Guantánamo Is Not an Anomaly, Prisoners in the US Are Force-Fed Every Day
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/06-0
Why I Am on a Hunger Strike to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay Prison
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/08
Rallies Slam Private Prisons for 30 Years of 'Profiting from Pain'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/07-2
Guantanamo Prison Documents Reveal 'Brutality of Force-Feeding'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/13-1
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Guantanamo: America s great shame
by Anthony Gregory
http://tinyurl.com/bpt4e93
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Guantanamo Is Not an Anomaly: Prisoners in the US Are Force-Fed Every Day
Ann Neumann, Waging Nonviolence: The fact that force feedings are being discussed in the context of Guantanamo is dangerously misleading; it obscures the routine use of feeding tubes in American prisons.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/16319-guantanamo-is-not-an-anomaly-prisoners-in-the-us-are-force-fed-every-day
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