|
|
| Hunger strike at Gitmo |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/10/2007 |
|
SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - Several detainees at Guantanamo Bay have joined a long-running hunger strike that attorneys say is a protest against harsher conditions at a new prison unit, bringing their number to 13, a spokesman at the U.S. military base said Monday. All were being force-fed through tubes inserted into their noses, said Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand, a Guantanamo spokesman. The strike, which began in 2005, has had as many as a dozen participants in recent months but reached 17 in the days before the trial in March of David Hicks, the Australian detainee whose case marked the first U.S. war crimes conviction since World War II. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
MARKETPLACE search vendors | advanced search
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
|
Comments:
No comments have been posted for this article.
Login to let us know what you think