#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 (...)