Guantanamo Detainees Resume Hunger Strike
89 detainees at Guantanamo Bay have resumed a hunger strike. According to Guantanamo spokesman Colonel Brad Blackner, it resumed on August 8:
The prisoners, protesting against their living conditions and their continued detention without trial, had gone on a widespread hunger strike that ended in July. Word that the hunger strike had resumed was disclosed on Thursday by Clive Stafford Smith, a British human rights lawyer who returned from visiting clients at the base a week ago. Mr Smith warned that many detainees have grown so desperate that they intend to starve themselves to death in an effort to create a public relations disaster for the US military.
The cause of the resumed hunger strike appears to be abuse-related:
The decision was sparked by rumours of a violent interrogation session and two rough extractions of detainees from their cells, as well as a new incident of alleged desecration of a copy of the Koran.
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