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Guantanamo detainees in protest fast
Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees have started a new hunger strike at the US detention centre and at least one has written a will in anticipation of starving to death, human rights lawyers say.
 The New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights said the hunger strike began because the US Department of Defence reneged on promises to negotiate with prisoners after a June-July hunger strike that involved up to 200 of the 500-plus men detained at the remote base. The military said only 52 prisoners were involved in the first strike, after a released prisoner and lawyers who spoke to detained clients published the news. "The DOD is practising dangerous deception," an attorney with the centre, Gitanjali Gutierrez, said in a statement. "It hid evidence of the hunger strike and prisoner abuse from visiting senators and the public." Spokesmen for the detention mission at Guantanamo could not immediately be reached for comment. Posted by: Fred 2005-09-01 |
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