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Military says Guantánamo hunger strike grows again
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/04/24/189534/military-says-guantanamo-hunger.htmlMilitary says Guantánamo hunger strike grows again
Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald
Posted on Wednesday, April 24, 2013
The number of hungers strikers has more than doubled since the U.S. military put most prisoners under lockdown at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo, the military said Wednesday, reporting that it now classified 92 of the captives as hunger strikers and was force feeding 17 of them.
Two were getting tube feedings at the prison camps hospital, said Army Lt. Col. Samuel House, but neither “currently have any life-threatening conditions.”
Defense lawyers for some detainees have insisted that about 130 of the 166 captives joined in the hunger strike two months ago, and accused the military of refusing to acknowledge it
House, acting prison camps spokesman, released the figures in a short email from the prison that noted the medical forces’ tally jumped from 84 captives on hunger strike Monday.