#US judge orders end to force-feeding of #Guantanamo detainee
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This photo made during an escorted visit and reviewed by the US military shows the corridor and the cell’s doors of “Camp 5” detention facility at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 8, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Mladen Antonov)
A US federal judge has ordered President Barack Obama’s administration to temporarily stop force feeding a Syrian detainee at Guantanamo Bay prison and hand over videotapes of his treatment. Abu Wa’el Dhiab, 42, was cleared for release by the Obama administration in 2009 but has remained at the US naval base in Cuba for more than a decade without charge or trial. Lawyers from London-based human rights group Reprieve have sought to secure 140 to 150 videos of Dhiab being force-fed or forcibly restrained. read (...)