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ب أندي [وورثينغتون] | قد كان هذا يزعج أسبوع لبريطانيّة مقيمة و [غنتنمو] سجينة [بينم] [موهمد], الذي احتمل اثنان ونصف سنون التعذيب في الأيادي من عاملات باكستانيّ, ال وكالة المخابرات الأمريكيّة, الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة' توكيل [تورتثرر] في مغرب, قبل يكون [ترنسفرّد] إلى [غنتنمو] في سبتمبر - أيلول 2004.

يوم الجمعة متأخّرة, هو كان كشفت أنّ كان هو أن يواجه محاكمة بعمولة عسكريّة في [غنتنمو] - ال "ذعر محاكم" اخترع بديك [شني] ومستشاراته في نوفمبر - تشرين الثّاني 2001, أيّ يكون فوّضت أن يخفي صنّفوا معلومة من المدّعى عليه و, في القاضية تحفظ, أن يقبل "بيّنة" نال من خلال ممانعة. يقلق هذا, [أف كورس], بشكل خاصّ في [بينم] حالة, بما أنّ كلّ مزقة من البيّنة ما يسمّى ضدّ ه يظهر أن يتلقّى يكون استخرجت من خلال تعذيب, وكان مقبولة في قاعة المحكمة على ال [أوس] برّ رئيسيّ.

هناك كان بعض أخبار ساطعة ل [بينم] في يوم الثلاثاء, عندما قاضية, [مر.]. عدل [سوندرس], يستجيب إيجابيّا إلى محامياته' طلب لمراجعات قضائيّة, أيّ, هم يأمل, سيتطلّب الحكومة بريطانيّة أن يسقط إدعاءه أنّ هو "تحت ما من إلتزام تحت قانون دوليّة أن يساعد أجنبيّة محاكم ومحاكم في يؤكّد أنّ تعذيب لا يعترف بيّنة" وأنّ "هو [هم] حكومة موقعة أنّ… بيّنة يمسك بالحكومة [أوك] أنّ [أوس] وسلطات مغربيّة يشبك في تعذيب أو تمثيل يستطيع لا يكون نلت" ب [بينم] محاميات. يأمل ه محاميات أيضا أنّ [ففووربل] قرار في القضائيّة مراجعات أجبرت الحكومة أن يكشف أيّما معلومة هو يتلقّى بخصوص بريطانيّة معرفة من [بينم] تمثيل أن يعذّب في مغرب, ومعلومة بخصوص ه حياة في لندن, أيّ, [بينم] يقول, كان قدّمت إلى ه ب [تورتثرر] ه مغربيّة.

اليوم, مهما, ال مستقلّة تقارير أنّ [بينم] لذلك يكرب بالإعلان من الحشوات ضدّ ه أنّ قد ركب هو على حالة جوع إضراب. في حرف إلى وزير خارجيّة دايفيد [ميليبند], محامياته في تأجيل, the legal action charity that provides legal assistance to over 30 Guantánamo prisoners, explain that Binyam “began not eating food on May 2, 2008, when he was 146 lbs (10 stone 6 lbs),” but that this went unnoticed, because “the US military does not count it as a ‘hunger strike’ if the prisoner does not actually refuse the tray.” On May 18, therefore, when his weight had already dropped to 128 lbs (9 stone 2 lbs), Binyam began refusing the trays.

Binyam stopped his strike temporarily, when Clive Stafford Smith, Reprieve’s director, and Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley, his military lawyer, persuaded him to eat during the three days of their visit, but announced that he would resume on May 24. Stafford Smith explained, “Under the illegal procedures used by the US military in Guantánamo … they will consider him a ‘hunger striker’ and start force-feeding him when he reaches about 120 lbs (8 stone 8 lbs). Stafford Smith thought that this might be on June 4 or 5.

From almost the moment that Guantánamo opened, in January 2002, hunger strikes have been used by the prisoners as the only way to protest the lawless conditions of their confinement — held without charge, with no family contact, with little or no social interaction, and with no inkling of when, if ever, their imprisonment will come to an end.

Persistent hunger strikers, however, are made to suffer even more, and are punished by being force-fed, a procedure that is monstrously cruel. Prisoners are strapped into a restraint chair using 16 separate straps — three across the head alone — and fed, twice a day, through a tube that is inserted into the stomach through the nose.

As well as being shockingly painful — and frequently unhygienic, as the tubes are not always cleaned after each use — force-feeding is also illegal, as the World Medical Association made clear in its Declaration of Tokyo in 1975: “Where a prisoner refuses nourishment and is considered by the physician as capable of forming an unimpaired and rational judgment concerning the consequences of such a voluntary refusal of nourishment, he or she shall not be fed artificially.”

The US administration ignores this requirement, as it is unwilling to let prisoners secure what it would regard as a PR victory if they starved themselves to death. Perhaps as a result, four long-term hunger strikers – three in June 2006, and another last May — took the only other action that was available to them, and committed suicide.

Binyam has not yet reached this state of desperation — although in a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, on May 22, he wrote, “I have been next to committing suicide this past while. That would be one way to end it, I suppose.” Nevertheless, as Clive Stafford Smith points out, “The need for humanitarian intervention on behalf of Mr. Mohamed grows ever more urgent. Because no US court will hear his case, I am powerless to secure him the humane treatment that he needs. The British government is not powerless. It is crucial that this be top of the government’s agenda.”

Andy is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison.

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