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星期六， 2008年6月7日

由 Andy Worthington | 由於巴基斯坦代理的作用，這是一個干擾的星期為英國的居民和Guantánamo囚犯Binyam Mohamed，忍受二和一個一半幾年酷刑， CIA和美國』代理人拷打者在摩洛哥，在轉移到Guantánamo之前在2004年9月。

最後星期五， 它顯露了 他将由軍委在Guantánamo - 「恐怖法院」面對試驗由Dick Cheney發明了，并且他的顧問在11月2001年，被授權隱瞞機密從被告，并且，在法官的謹慎，接受「證據」通過壓服獲得了。 這，當然，在Binyam的案件在美國大陸特別擔心，當所謂的證據的每塊細片對他的看上去通過酷刑被提取了和是不許可的在一個法庭。

在星期二有一些更加明亮的新聞為Binyam，當法官，先生。 法官桑德斯， 正面地反應 對他的律師』要求一個司法審查，他們希望，要求英國的政府下降它的要求它有義務「沒有根據國際法協助外國法院和法庭在保證酷刑證據沒有被承認」，并且「它是HM…英國政府舉行的證據的政府的位置酷刑或翻譯和摩洛哥當局參與美國不可能由Binyam的律師獲得」。 他律師也希望有利決定在司法審查將強迫政府顯露任何信息它有關於英國知識Binyam的翻譯拷打在摩洛哥，并且信息關於他生活在倫敦， Binyam說，被提出了對他由他的摩洛哥拷打者。

今天，然而， 獨立 報告 那Binyam是，因此由充電的公告困厄反對他他開始绝食。 在給外交部長大衛Miliband，他的律師的一封信件在 緩刑, 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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