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September 12, 2005Guantanamo Bay - the hunger strike continues
Four years since September 11th, and the Bush administration continues with one the boldest crimes it has perpetrated in the name of its victims:
BBC - Guantanamo strike in second month: A hunger strike by detainees at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp has entered a second month, says the US military. A prison spokesman said 87 inmates were still taking part in the strike that began on 8 August. Lawyers for the prisoners put the figure at 210.
Guardian - U.S. Denies Guantanamo Bay Prison Abuse: Most of some 500 detainees from more than 40 countries have been held more than 3 years without charge or access to lawyers. One of the demands of the strikers is that they be charged and brought to trial, or freed.
Independent - Revealed: the diary of a British man on hunger strike in Guantanamo: More than 200 detainees are starving themselves to protest against conditions at the camp in Cuba where they are being held without trial. Here the Independent on Sunday publishes a shocking extract from the journal of Omar Deghayes, a British resident, who has been imprisoned there since September 2002
UPDATE - Oh, goody... UK link to terror snatches
Posted by Manic on September 12, 2005 10:54 AM in the category The War on Stupid
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I've been tracking the coverage of the hunger-strikes since June: it seems to be slipping out of headline news territory into a tolerated injustice. Notice how a recurring point of contention is how many prisoners are on the hunger-strike? Because, clearly, a small number means it isn't that serious..
Posted by: bookdrunk at September 12, 2005 4:07 PM
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