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Gitmo's Hunger Strikers
Smith, Clive Stafford | October 17, 2005 issue

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Offers a look at hunger strikes by detainees at the Guantánamo Bay detention center. Comments made by prisoner Omar Deghayes regarding his lack of rights; Report that the U.S. military has insisted on secrecy regarding Guantánamo, and the prisoners' lawyers cannot reveal information about their clients until it passes U.S. government censors; Prevalence of suicidal and self-injurious behavior among the prisoners; Detainment of Sami Al Laithi after having been found innocent by the U.S. military's own tribunals; Violations of the Geneva Conventions on prisoners' rights; Report that prisoners are being force-fed.

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HUNGER strikes; PRISONERS -- Civil rights; PRISONERS -- Legal status, laws, etc.; DETAINERS (Criminal procedure); SELF-injurious behavior; GUANTANAMO Bay (Cuba); UNITED States
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