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#Guantanamo hunger striker files court petition for « civilized » #force-feeding
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This photo made during an escorted visit and reviewed by the #US military shows an unidentified detainee walking at the exercise yard at “Camp 6” detention facility at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on April 08, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Mladen Antonov)

A Syrian prisoner at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said in a court petition on Tuesday that his force-feedings amounted to torture and asked a judge to order his jailers to make them “civilized.” In a petition to a US District Court in Washington, a lawyer for Abu Wael Dhiab said his client did not object to being force-fed in order to keep him alive, but objected to the methods being used. “I am willing to be force-fed in a humane manner,” attorney Jon Eisenberg quoted his client as (...)

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#US court orders release of #Guantanamo #force-feeding videos
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/us-court-orders-release-guantanamo-force-feeding-videos

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This photo made during an escorted visit and reviewed by the US military, shows the razor wire-topped fence and a watch tower at the abandoned “Camp X-Ray” detention facility at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 9, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Mladen Antonov)

A US federal judge ordered the government Wednesday to provide the medical records and 34 videos of a Syrian hunger-striking prisoner who was forced-fed at Guantanamo. Abu Wael 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. US District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered President Barack Obama’s administration last week to temporarily stop force-feeding Dhiab, also asked that it turn (...)

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#US judge orders end to force-feeding of #Guantanamo detainee
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/us-judge-orders-ending-force-feeding-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 (...)

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