File photo shows a detainee with guards at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.<\/p>\n
A group of hunger striking prisoners at Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba has called on the US-run facility’s military doctors to allow them access to non-military, independent physicians.\n<\/p>\n
In a letter sent to the military doctors and published by the UK’s daily Guardian<\/i> on Friday, the prisoners wrote that they cannot trust the military doctors.\n<\/p>\n \u00c5\u201cI cannot trust your advice because you are responsible to your superior military officers who require you to treat me by means unacceptable to me, and you put your duty to them above your duty to me as a doctor,\u201d prisoners wrote in the letter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n About 130 prisoners have been on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for over 100 days in protest against their long imprisonment without charge or trial, as well as the horrible conditions at the jail.<\/p>\n Reports say some of the prisoners on hunger strike were being force-fed via tubes snaked up their nose and into their stomach, and five had been hospitalized.\n<\/p>\n The prisoners also wrote in the letter that the force-feeding administered by military physicians is \u00c5\u201cin violation of the ethics\u201d of their profession.\n<\/p>\n In April, David Remes, a lawyer representing 17 Guantanamo prisoners, said many of the hunger-striking detainees at the US infamous prison are being treated like animals and brutally force-fed.\n<\/p>\n The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has also urged US President Barack Obama’s administration to mend the situation in Guantanamo that has compelled prisoners to starve themselves, saying that the act of force-feeding is akin to torture.\n<\/p>\n MAM\/SS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n