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Vele gevangenen van Guantanamo op hongerstaking
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Meer dan dozijn gevangenen bij de Baai van Guantanamo, Cuba, op hongerstaking zijn om hun behandeling te protesteren en kracht-gevoed, gezegd een media rapport op Maandag citerend militaire ambtenaren en advocaten voor gevangenen.
De advocaten voor verscheidene hongerstrikers vertelden de New York Times dat de hun cliënten' acties door ruwe voorwaarden in een nieuwe complexe veiligheid werden gedreven waaraan ongeveer 160 gevangenen sinds December zijn bewogen.
Er zijn 13 gevangenen nu op hongerstaking. Zij worden dicht gecontroleerd. Their persistence underscores how the struggle between detainees and guards at Guantanamo has continued even as the military has tightened its control, the Times said.
“We don’t have any rights here, even after your Supreme Court said we had rights,” one hunger striker, Majid al-Joudi, told a military physician, the report said quoting medical records released recently. “If the policy does not change, you will see a big increase in fasting.”
A military spokesman at Guantanamo, Cmdr. Robert Durand of the Navy, the Times said, played down the significance of the current hunger strike, describing the prisoners’ complaints as “propaganda.”
But the paper says newly released Pentagon documents show that during earlier hunger strikes, before the use of restraint chairs, some detainees suffered sharp weight losses.
By comparison, the current hunger strike in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday seems almost symbolic. For instance, the medical records for Joudi, a 36-year-old Saudi, show that when he was hospitalised on February 10, he had been fasting for 31 days and had lost more than 15 per cent of his body weight.
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2007Times Internet Limited
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