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More than half of Guantanamo detainees now on hunger strike
April 22, 2013 by Alison Sacriponte
The US Military confirmed on Monday that 84 of the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are on hunger strike, protesting their conditions and indefinite detention. The hunger strike began in February with just a few prisoners and has grown over the past weeks to include more than half of the detainees..... [more]
US to notify Guantanamo prisoners' lawyers of force-feeding
April 14, 2013 by Jaimie Cremeans
Lawyers for prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay said on Monday that the US government has started to notify them when their clients participating in a hunger strike are being force-fed. The hunger strike, which has been ongoing since February, is a protest against indefinite detainment and the.... [more]
Guantanamo Bay Timeline
January 11, 2012 by Clay Flaherty
4/30/13: President Obama renewed pledge to close Guantanamo
4/28/13: Former Guantanamo detainee's lawyer announced appeal of terrorism conviction
4/22/13: US military confirmed more than half of Guantanamo detainees were on hunger strike
4/8/13: US announced it would notify Guantanamo.... [more]
Federal judge rejects jurisdiction over Guantanamo force-feeding case
February 12, 2009 by Ximena Marinero
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Tuesday a petition by two Guantanamo Bay detainees to stop the force-feeding imposed on them during their hunger strike, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction over the matter. The petitioners, Mohammed Ali Abdullah Bawazir.... [more]
Washington high court rules inmate has no right to starve himself
April 11, 2008 by Brett Murphy
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Washington state constitution does not provide a right for prison inmates to starve themselves to death. Convicted arsonist Charles R. McNabb sued the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) to stop his force-feeding. McNabb pursued.... [more]
Doctors attack 'unethical' medical practices at Guantanamo Bay
September 7, 2007 by Jaime Jansen
Doctors from 16 countries have chided the US military for its medical care of detainees at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in a letter Friday to the UK medical journal The Lancet. Referring to the US policy of force-feeding detainees on hunger strike, the more than 260 signatories....... [more]
Doctors say Guantanamo force-feeding violates medical ethics
August 1, 2007 by Michael Sung
Military doctors participating in the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay are violating medical ethics, according to commentary published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The three authors- Sondra S. Crosby, MD, Caroline M. Apovian, MD....... [more]
Number of hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees doubles
January 9, 2007 by Lisl Brunner
The number of detainees on hunger-strike at Guantanamo Bay has increased this month to 11 from five as the detention center's fifth anniversary approaches on Thursday. US military spokesman have in the past insisted that hunger strikes are a typical tactic of Al-Qaeda members, designed to achie....... [more]
ICTY orders force-feeding of Serb nationalist accused if needed to save life
December 6, 2006 by Brett Murphy
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Wednesday mandated that Dutch officials force-feed Serb nationalist and war crimes defendant Vojislav Seselj in the event that the hunger strike he has been engaged in since November 11 threatens his life. The panel.... [more]
New US military medical guidelines for detainee treatment allow force-feeding
June 7, 2006 by Jaime Jansen
The US Department of Defense has issued comprehensive guidelines for the treatment of detainees that direct doctors to force-feed detainees who endanger their own lives as a result of a hunger strike. The guidelines, aimed primarily at the recent wave of hunger strikes by detainees at Guantanamo.... [more]
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