Guantanamo hunger strike enters day 41
A hunger strike by prisoners at the US’s notorious Guantanamo Bay detention facility enters its 41st consecutive day, as medical experts and lawyers warn of the deteriorating health of more than 100 hunger strikers. - Lawyers and medical officials are concerned about the critical health condition of the prisoners, who began the hunger strike on February 6, after the Gitmo staff reportedly seized the personal belongings of the inmates, including letters, photographs and copies of the Holy Qur’an in a sacrilegious manner during searches of their cells. Dr. Mark Mason, an anthropologist, said, “They are indeed threatening their own lives, putting their lives on the line in this heroic effort to express a sense of autonomy, outrage at being imprisoned in what can be characterized as nothing less than the American sort of medieval torture chamber.” “That context where we have individuals incarcerated, isolated from each other, and they don’t know if they are going to get out tomorrow or never. That sets off a circumstance for extreme psychological stress,” Mason stated.
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