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March 5, 2013

Attorneys: Gitmo Prisoners on 3-Week Hunger Strike 
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Defense attorneys for a group of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay have
revealed their clients have been on a hunger strike for more than three
weeks. In a letter to the U.S. military, the Center for Constitutional
Rights and several detainees' lawyers say the prisoners have refused
meals over ongoing humiliations and arbitrary searches. Warning the
hunger strike is "endangering lives and health," the letter concludes:
"This administration should be far beyond such cruelties, particularly
given how many of the men still trapped there have been unanimously
cleared for transfer."

 

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