Guantanamo prison to synchronize force-feedings to Ramadan fast
MIAMI -- The U.S. prison at Guantanamo has sufficient military medical staff to synchronize forced-feedings to the Ramadan fast and will only feed hunger strikers after sunset and before dawn, a...
View ArticleLawyers ask court to end Gitmo force-feedings
Travel Deals $45 & up -- Florida's Gulf Coast: Deals up to 55% Off See all travel deals » Carol Rosenberg, MIAMI HERALD Posted: Tuesday, July 2, 2013, 1:08 AM Lawyers for four Guantanamo...
View ArticleLawyers want force-feeding to end at Guantanamo
The Daily Briefing Photo of Kasich signing the state budget that includes anti-abortion language surrounded by all men goes viral.... Buckeye Forum Podcast The Dispatch public affairs team talks...
View ArticleGitmo lawsuit: End forced feedings before Ramadan
July 2, 2013 -- Updated 0413 GMT (1213 HKT) Guantanamo Bay's detention facility opened in 2002 with 700 detainees. More than a decade later, 166 remain and more than half are in political limbo,...
View ArticleGuantanamo lawsuit: End forced feedings before Ramadan
A table with a bottle of Ensure, two feeding tubes and a feeding bag set up next to a "feeding chair" with arm, leg and chest restraints inside the Detainee Medical Center at Camp Delta, Guantanamo...
View ArticleU.S. rejects call to stop force-feeding at Guantanamo for Ramadan
July 3, 2013 -- Updated 1738 GMT (0138 HKT) Protesters demand the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility at the White House in May. (CNN) -- The U.S. government on Wednesday refused to stop...
View ArticleRamadan, court rulings ease tensions of Guantanamo hunger strike
Weak from lack of food and worn down by months of harassment, the 100-plus hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay prison complex in southern Cuba scored symbolic court victories this week as their...
View ArticleWhy Doctors Oppose Force-Feeding Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
For centuries, the act of refusing food has turned human bodies into effective political bargaining chips. And so it's no surprise that the prisoners desperate to leave Guantanamo after, in some...
View ArticleRapper's video puts spotlight on Guantanamo forced-feeding at Ramadan
MIAMI -- In a brutal video that has gone viral, rapper-actor Yasiin Bey, a k a Mos Def, is clad in an orange jumpsuit and recoils against restraints as a doctor tries to put a feeding tube up his...
View ArticleGuantánamo hunger strike: US to force-feed detainees during Ramadan
Government says feedings provide 'essential nutritional and medical care' and will not interfere with religious observance Government lawyers said that enteral or force feeding is authorised by...
View ArticleGuantánamo authorities 'planning Ramadan force-feeding factory'
New legal filing says plan to continue feeds at night during holy month will be dangerous for health of detainees Guantánamo Bay. Photograph: Brennan Linsley/AP Lawyers acting for four detainees on...
View ArticleUS judge denies Guantánamo Bay prisoner's request to end force-feeding
Only Obama has to power to intervene in hunger strike, judge says, as she denies one of four requests to end practice A military doctor holds a feeding tube used to feed detainees on hunger strike at...
View ArticleJudge Won’t Halt Guantanamo Force-Feedings, Despite Inmate’s...
A federal judge ruled that she will not block force-feedings at Guantanamo prison camp, despite an inmate’s request to do so. US District Judge Gladys Kessler explained that she would be overstepping...
View ArticleGitmo inmate's request to end force-feeding denied
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday denied a Guantanamo prisoner's request to halt the force-feeding of hunger strikers and said that only President Barack Obama had the power to intervene....
View ArticleJudge denies Guantanamo inmate's request to end force-feeding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday denied a Guantanamo prisoner's request to halt the force-feeding of hunger strikers and said that only President Barack Obama had the power to intervene....
View ArticleU.S. judge denies Guantanamo inmate's request to end force-feeding
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday denied a Guantanamo prisoner's request to halt the force-feeding of hunger strikers and said that only President Barack Obama had the power to intervene....
View ArticleLawyers ask federal court to halt Guantánamo forced-feeding
Lawyers for four Guantánamo captives are asking a federal court in Washington, D.C., to put an end to the grotesque practice of force-feeding at the Pentagon prison in southeast Cuba. The U.S....
View ArticleObama asks court not to halt Guantanamo force-feeding
MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court has no jurisdiction and no reason to intervene in the force-feeding of prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base, the Obama administration argued on Wednesday in...
View ArticleU.S. asks court not to halt Guantanamo force-feeding
MIAMI (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court has no jurisdiction and no reason to intervene in the force-feeding of prisoners at the Guantanamo naval base, the Obama administration argued on Wednesday in...
View ArticleJudge turns down bid to end Gitmo force-feeding
Frederic J. Frommer Associated Press Comments Washington A federal judge Tuesday turned down a bid by three Guantanamo Bay detainees on a hunger strike to stop the government from force-feeding...
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