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Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network: Adam Hudson says that despite the potential closing of Guantanamo prison, the culture of indefinite detention is institutionalized in the military.

http://www.truth-out.org/video/item/17467-inside-gitmo-military-commissions



What It Means to Starve for Freedom in Guantanamo

George Pauk, Truthout: Former physician George Pauk takes a closer look at the Guantanamo hunger strikers and hypothesizes about where starvation fits into our freedom today.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17669-starving-for-freedom



Guantanamo s Harsh Realities Hidden Behind Wall of Secrecy

Adam Hudson, Truthout: Guantanamo defense attorney James Connell s visit to Camp 7 and last week s military commissions pretrial hearing highlight the lengths to which the US government goes to hide Guantanamo s ugly realities.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18606-guantanamos-harsh-realities-hidden-behind-wall-of-secrecy

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When will White House transfer cleared Gitmo prisoners?

If you were disturbed yesterday by the video we released of Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) being force-fed like a Guantánamo prisoner, please consider: right now this is happening 90 times a day at Guantánamo Bay. (If you haven t seen it yet, the video is here. You may find the images distressing.)

http://is.gd/M7VwwD



Our treatment of Guantanamo detainees offends justice and diminishes us all

Op-Ed

A quote worth recalling when it comes to the U. S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell s: ''Watch what we do, not what we say.''

http://is.gd/0Psztb



Gitmo Prisoner Force-Feeding Violates Medical Ethics

By Nuriel Moghavem, Marty Makary

The cruel practice of forced nasograstic tube gagging of tied down persons who have never had a trial is not an American value.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35622.htm



Guantánamo Bay costs in 2013 to top $450M

The cost to run the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in 2013 is $454 million, a figure significantly higher than previous estimates, according to a new Pentagon assessment.

http://is.gd/4aoh5Y



Guantanamo medics decried for forced feeding of prisoners

This week the British Medical Association (BMA) added its condemnation over what it described as ''a violation of medical ethics'' by those doctors involved in carrying it out.

http://is.gd/nm97An



The US Was Dead Wrong, But No One Can Admit It

By John Grisham

When John Grisham heard Guantánamo prisoners were requesting his books, he wanted to learn more. What he found out about Nabil Hadjarab, detained for 11 years, horrified him.

http://is.gd/aKFvTX



U.S. Military To Stop Updates On Hunger Strike at Guantanamo Bay

After initially denying that the strike even existed, officials soon launched an effort to quash it. They put the striking prisoners in solitary confinement and started force-feeding them (a practice that, it bears mentioning, is considered torture by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and banned by the World Medical Association).

http://www.bustle.com/articles/5567-us-military-to-stop-updates-on-hunger-strike-at-guantanamo-bay



Guantánamo Bay: The Hunger Strikes

Video using testimony from five detainees, this animated film reveals the daily brutality of life inside Guantánamo. Today there are 17 prisoners still on hunger strike, 16 of whom are being force-fed. Two are in hospital.

Warning: contains scenes some viewers might find disturbing.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2013/oct/11/guantanamo-bay-hunger-strikes-video-animation?CMP=twt_gu



Some at Guantanamo jail too sick to keep locked up

Tarek El-Sawah is in terrible shape after 11 years as a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, a fact even the U.S. military does not dispute.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/oct/10/some-at-guantanamo-jail-too-sick-to-keep-locked/



Letters Detail Punitive Tactics Used On Guantánamo Hunger Strikers

By Mark Townsend

Newly declassified papers say hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay was 'broken' by a deliberate campaign to crush detainees' spirits.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36511.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Guantanamo Detainee Family Members Tell Senate of 'Suffering' and 'Anguish'
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/24-6

''Punishment'' and Beating of Gitmo Hunger-Strikers Revealed by Yemeni Detainee Ahead of Yemen President s US Visit
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/07/31-3

'Every Single Time It Was Torture': Guantanamo Detainees Appeal to Federal Courts to Stop Force-Feeding
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/05-1

Gitmo Architect Says Gitmo Shouldn t Have Been Built
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/05-3

Guantanamo Authorities Block Solzhenitsyn s ?Gulag Archipelago?
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/08/20

It s Time to End the Injustice of Guantanamo and Bagram
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/09/12



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