Guantanamo hunger strikes

There have been a series of extensive hunger strikes by the captives who have been held without charge for over a decade in the United States controversial detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.

References

Ashby Jones (2014-10-07). "Alleged Terrorist Suspect Seeks to Suppress Statements Made to U.S. Officials". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2014-10-07. http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/10/07/alleged-terrorist-suspect-seeks-to-suppress-statements-made-to-u-s-officials/. Retrieved 2014-10-08. "Lawyers for Abu Anas al-Libi, the suspect awaiting trial in Manhattan on charges related to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, say their client was threatened with torture and shouldn’t be condemned by statements he made during his interrogation."
Carol Rosenberg (2014-10-07). "Doctor: Guantánamo erred by lubing forced-feeding tubes with olive oil". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on 2014-10-08. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/guantanamo/article2564288.html. Retrieved 2014-10-08. "Dr. Steven Miles, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota who specializes in bioethics, testified in court that it’s unacceptable, risky medical practice to use lubricant that is not water-based for inserting a feeding tube into a patient. He said the detention center should survey detainees whose tubes were lubricated with olive oil for signs of a form of non-infectious pneumonia that could mislead a physician to diagnose cancer or tuberculosis."
Lazario Gamio, Carol Rosenberg. "Tracking the hunger strike". Miami Herald. http://pubsys.miamiherald.com/static/media/projects/gitmo_chart/. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
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