Guantanamo Hunger Strike Renews Debates Over Indefinite Detention, Ethics Of Force-feeding

Peter Finn, Julie Tate, Washington Post
Thu, 05/02/2013 - 7:02am

Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a number of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block. The detainees are offered a hot meal or a liquid nutritional supplement and, if they refuse, they are strapped into a chair.

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