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| Guantanamo hunger striker losing weight |
| By google.com |
| Published: 11/04/2009 |
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on hunger strike for more than four years is in critical danger from malnutrition, his lawyers said Tuesday. U.S. officials insist his weight loss is not an immediate health risk. Abdul Rahman Shalabi, who is fed liquid nutrients through a nasal tube, recently weighed 107 pounds (49 kilograms), or 71 percent of the ideal body weight identified by medical authorities at the U.S. base in Cuba, his lawyers said in court papers filed this week in federal court in Washington. "He's two pounds away from organ failure and death," attorney Julia Tarver Mason said in an interview. Read More. |
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