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Military officials found a detainee ''almost dying because of hunger and thirst'' after a raid to regain control of a communal prison camp early Saturday, a Muslim military liason told reporters.

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Scores on hunger strike at Guantanamo jail

Some 84 of the 166 prisoners at the prison camp have joined the hunger strikers, with 16 being force-fed.

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6 government lies on detainee torture

A new report from the Constitution Project has helped expose U.S. prisoner abuse post-9/11.

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Comprehensive Report Finds Evidence of US Torture at Guantánamo

By Nathaniel Rojas

ÄÄ[Guantánamo] was a major testing ground for the government s policy of engaging in highly coercive interrogation techniques, practices designed to visit torment on detainees''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34731.htm

Lawyer s Jail Torment Marks US Totalitarian State

By Finian Cunningham

The US state s cruel persecution of this woman epitomises the general destruction of human rights and the rise of draconian police powers across America in the aftermath of 9/11 and the fraudulent ''war on terror''.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34740.htm

Barbaric, force feeding continues as number of hunger strikers in Guantanamo at 92

16 of the hunger strikers are on feeding tubes, five of whom are hospitalized, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel House said in a statement issued earlier this week.

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Guantanamo Desperation 'Unprecedented'

The International Committee of the Red Cross told congressional staffers that the level of desperation amongst Guantanamo detainees is ''unprecedented.''

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Guantanamo strike sparks outcry in Yemen

An ongoing hunger strike by nearly half of Guantanamo s 166 prisoners has galvanised street protests outside the US embassy in Yemen, where detainees' long-suffering families have been raising their voices.

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A Warning from Guantánamo: Four Prisoners Are Close to Death, and the Authorities Don t Care

Four prisoners are close to death, as a result of the prison-wide hunger strike that is on its 80th day, and yet the guard force are behaving with brutality and indifference.

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Message from Guantanamo prison cells

Op-Ed:

On Thursday the American Medical Association sent a letter to Chuck Hagel, US defence secretary, condemning force feeding.

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Some of force-fed hunger striking detainees in Guantanamo were cleared for release years ago

''I will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up my nose. I can t describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way,'' he wrote. ''As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up. I wanted to vomit, but I couldn t. There was agony in my chest, throat and stomach. I had never experienced such pain before. I would not wish this cruel punishment upon anyone.''

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Detainee treatment task force member condemns force-feeding

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Force feeding at Gitmo branded 'torture' by UN

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Force-feeding inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison is 'torture', and 'breaks international law.' That's how the United Nations labeled the treatment of detainees at the facility. As many as 23 prisoners are now being forced to eat through nasal tubes, as a mass hunger strike there nears the three-month mark.

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Obama: Walk Your Talk on Guantánamo

The president must start living up to his rhetoric about closing the prison, the CCR warns, or ''the men who are on hunger strike will die, and he will be ultimately responsible for their deaths.''

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Inside Americas Gulag

Pictures and Video

The photos show the Joint Task Force s ''Behavioral Health Unit'' and Joint Medical Group facilities where detainees are now being force-fed due to the ongoing hunger strike.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34861.htm

From Information Clearing House

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Activists Pressure to Close Guantanamo as Hunger Strike Escalates and Senator Feinstein Calls for Restart of Transfers from the Prison
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