US military sends "medical force" to Gitmo amid confidential visit by ICRC
A [force-]“feeding chair” at US Guantánamo military prison’s
psychiatric ward, called the "Behavioral Medical Unit" (taken
from a military handout video dated April 10, 2013).
The US has dispatched additional military ‘medical forces’ to its Guantánamo detention and torture camp in Cuba to help with growing force-feeding measures as the hunger strike by captives continues to spread to protest the indefinite detention without charge or trial.
Nearly 40 more “US Navy medical forces” have arrived at the notorious military prison camps in efforts to deal with the spreading hunger strike by what the prison authorities report as 100 detainees, over one-fifth of whom are being force-fed to keep them alive, US-based daily The Miami Herald reported Monday, citing the prison’s spokesman. The "corpsmen, nurses, and other specialists" arrived at the naval base over the weekend "as part of a contingency during the ongoing hunger strike," the report added, citing a statement by the spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Samuel House. The figure offered by prison authorities, however, has been contested by a number of attorneys for the inmates who have put the number of Guantánamo hunger strikers at between 130 and all the 166 remaining detainees.