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Gitmo interrogators face accusations
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-14 08:53
More detainees join Gitmo hunger strike
Nearly 40 more detainees have joined a hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay
prison camp for terror suspects, bringing the total to 128, an official said
Tuesday.
Eighteen prisoners have been hospitalized, including 13 who are being fed
by tubes, said Capt. John Adams, a spokesman for the detention center. The five
others are receiving intravenous fluids.
Thirty-nine prisoners have joined the strike since Friday, Adams said. He
said the number of hospitalized detainees had reached 22, but four were returned
to their cells after their conditions improved. All are being monitored by
doctors at the camp in eastern Cuba, he said.
In this January 2003 US Navy photo, Al-Qaeda
and Taliban detainees sit in a holding area at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [AFP/file] | "Everyone is stable at this time," Adams said. "If their condition appears to
weaken, they will be brought to the hospital and either fed intravenously or
nose fed."
The prison at Guantanamo holds about 500 prisoners from 40 countries. More
than 230 others have been released or transferred to the custody of their home
governments. The detainees are accused of ties to the al-Qaida terrorist network
or Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime. Most have been held for more than three
years without charge.
The military has said the latest hunger strike began Aug. 8, with 76
detainees were refusing meals.
Lawyers from the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights said
detainees were angry because the military allegedly reneged on promises to
comply with the Geneva Conventions if the prisoners ended a previous hunger
strike.
Sgt. Justin Behrens, another Guantanamo spokesman, denied that the military
had reneged on any promises. He said each cell block has chosen a prisoner to
talk with military authorities about conditions at the camp.
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