Blackout TV: US media turn blind eye to Gitmo hunger strike

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Published on 25 Mar 2013

The hunger strike among prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is into day 48 - but their plight's still struggling to garner wider attention. Lawyers say over 100 inmates are refusing food - and are concerned about their deteriorating health. Prison officials continue to downplay the protest, and there's little coverage in the U.S. media, as Marina Portnaya explains.


Published on 23 Mar 2013

The Guantanamo Bay hunger strike has gone beyond the critical 45 day mark, when doctors say the body is deprived of nutrition. Officials at the detention center in Cuba have acknowledged more detainees are joining the protest over alleged mistreatment. This comes amid a Pentagon request for 49 million dollars to build a new prison building and carry out renovations - despite a 4 year-old promise to shut it down. Gayane Chichakyan has more.
 
Numb Limbo: US govt silent on future of Gitmo detainees ...Continueing cover up !


Published on 29 Mar 2013

The U.S. government has been facing uncomfortable questions over the hunger strike at
Guantanamo Bay, but has failed to assure anyone that it's going to take any action.
RT's Washington correspondent Gayane Chichakyan explains why her attempts to get
an official response are getting nowhere.
 
Dead or free: Gitmo prisoners ready to starve to death...updates


Published on 2 Apr 2013

For 56 days now, dozens of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have taken part in a massive hunger strike. The reason for the refusal to eat is an effort to protest the treatment within the facility, and according to the prisoners' attorneys they are willing to lose their lives in the process. According to the US military, some of the captives have been force fed through feeding tubes, but still much of the details of the protest are shrouded in secrecy. Jason Leopold, lead investigative reporter with TruthOut, joins us with the latest.

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Guantanamo Hunger Strike Continues - No Legal Basis for Holding Prisoners


Michael Ratner: The Obama Admin. is responsible for the continued imprisonment of 86 men who were found not to have been involved in any crime or act of war.
 
Pit of Hopelessness: Guantanamo grows tense, inmates suicidal


Published on 22 Apr 2013

More than a half of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay are now on hunger strike, according to the U.S. military. So far, 5 have been hospitalized at the prison camp, and 16 are being force-fed. And as RT's Gayane Chichyakyan explains, the fate of the hunger strikers has broad international implications...
 
Force feeding at Gitmo branded 'torture' by UN - Obama forced to speak on Gitmo hunger strike


Published on 2 May 2013

Force-feeding inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison is 'torture', and 'breaks international law.' That's how the United Nations labeled the treatment of detainees at the facility. As many as 23 prisoners are now being forced to eat through nasal tubes, as a mass hunger strike there nears the three-month mark.

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Obama forced to speak on Gitmo hunger strike, and says it should be closed and is harming the US reputation:


Published on 30 Apr 2013

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama addressed his concerns for the Guantanamo Bay hunger strike and reiterated his goal of closing down the military detention facility. Obama said he doesn't want the individuals participating in the protest to die and new reports indicate that as many as 130 of the 166 prisoners detained there are refusing to eat. RT's Meghan Lopez brings us more on the situation in Cuba.
 
Barack Obama reaffirms Guantanamo closure intention


Published on 6 May 2013

With a hunger strike now two months old and one hundred inmates refusing food, President Obama has renewed his intention to shut down the Guantanamo Detention Centre declaring he did not want people to die.
 
100 Days of Hunger Strike: US no closer to Gitmo shutdown


Published on 16 May 2013

It's been exactly one hundred days since detainees at Guantanamo Bay camp started their hunger strike. The official number of inmates refusing food has been increasing on an almost daily basis - and has reached at least one hundred. Around thirty hunger- strikers are being subjected to force-feeding - a controversial tactic condemned by the UN and the international medical community as inhumane. And all those numbers are only likely to grow. Because what started as a strike against mistreatment has turned into a battle against indefinite detention and Washington's broken promises to close the prison at the center of America's War on Terror.

READ MORE:
http://rt.com/trends/guantanamo-priso...

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Pit of Hopelessness: Guantanamo grows tense, inmates suicidal


Published on 22 Apr 2013
More than a half of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay are now on hunger strike, according to the U.S. military. So far, 5 have been hospitalized at the prison camp, and 16 are being force-fed. And as RT's Gayane Chichyakyan explains, the fate of the hunger strikers has broad international implications...
 
Update: Guantanamo could stay open under NDAA 2014 - Gitmo detainees demand justice through hunger

Guantanamo could stay open under NDAA 2014


Published on 5 Jun 2013

On Tuesday, The House Arms Services Committee began considering the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014. The bill will appropriate funding to the US military this coming fiscal year and includes provisions dealing with the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba and its detainees. RT's Sam Sacks joins us to discuss the NDAA.

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Gitmo detainees demand justice through hunger



Published on 3 Jun 2013

It has been more than three months since detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility began participating in a massive hunger strike. Now 13 inmates involved in the protest have written a letter to their military doctors demanding better treatment and are requesting a non-military physician to assess their health. The detainees believe that their acts will lead to justice after nearly a decade of imprisonment. Human rights attorney David Remes, who represents several of the detainees, brings us more.
 
About Time BBC reported on Guantanamo's asymmetric war as hunger strike continues

It's high time the MSM does an investigation on Guantanamo. I have been posting updates in this thread mainly from RT and Channel four news. It's a shame the MSM are so silent. This appears to be a complete report.


Guantanamo's asymmetric war as hunger strike continues

Jonathan Beale visits "Camp Five" where the Guantanamo hunger strike started

A hunger strike at at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, which started with a handful of prisoners, has now become a mass protest with 103 out of the 166 detainees still held here taking part. On Wednesday night, the number of those detainees being "force-fed" rose to 41 - up from 38 just 24 hours ago. The protest began in February and has been growing for almost four months. Lawyers representing detainees say it was sparked by tougher prison searches.

The US military, which runs the camp, says those searches uncovered various contraband items, including homemade weapons that have been used to attack prison guards. The detainees' lawyers claim that during those searches the Koran was mishandled - something the US military strongly deny.

"Zac", the US military's "cultural adviser" who liaises with the prisoners, says it is a familiar tactic to attract the attention of the outside world. Prisoners, many of whom have been held here for more than a decade, most without charge, do not want to be forgotten.

We were shown around empty cells and the communal areas of Camps Five and Six. On previous visits, we have been allowed to watch the detainees mingle together from a distance. Over the years, the harsh regime appeared to have been relaxed.

Journalists who visit Guantanamo are still not allowed to identify or talk to the detainees. This time, though, we were kept well away from those being held. The nearest we came was during early-morning prayers when we were able to hear, but not see, them behind their heavy cell doors.

Most prisoners are now locked up, on their own, for 22 hours a day. The old privileges of communal living are being denied to all but a few - around 20 of the so-called "compliant detainees".

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Guantanamo prisoner Shackles are called "humane restraints" and force-feeding is a banned word, too It was US President George W Bush's administration that invented a new language and new rules to justify Guantanamo's existence as a camp for "unlawful enemy combatants" - without the long-established rights of "prisoners of war" .

'Enteral feeding' Though they now apply the Geneva Conventions at Guantanamo, old habits appear to die hard. So shackles used to restrain detainees are never called that. They are simply referred to as "humane restraints". Force-feeding is also a term that is avoided. Here it's called "enteral feeding".

We were shown around the medical centre where some of those prisoners are fed nutritional supplements to ensure they survive and maintain a safe body weight. As with the camp guards, the medical staff did not want to be identified.

Video:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22795468
 
Update: Day 150: Gitmo hunger strike continues amidst world's outrage

Day 150: Gitmo hunger strike continues amidst world's outrage

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Published on 5 Jul 2013

The hunger strike in Guantanamo detention facility enters its 150th day with prisoners accusing the guards of worsening treatment and abusive searches. Doctors urge to stop the force-feeding in the prison and more voices call to shut it down. The US government is fighting a legal effort to stop the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Lawyers for several prisoners have appealed to a Washington court to intervene - but the administration says federal judges have no say on what happens at the camp. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/uxctic
 
Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strike Presentation

This video showing the Standard procedure for Force Feeding a Guantanamo Bay prisoner. This force-feeding goes on on a daily basis. The majority of these detainees have not been charged with any crime.

The video features a rapper known "Mos Def."


Video info:
Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) force-fed under standard Guantánamo Bay procedure.
As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure.
* tears. That was painful to watch, raw.
 
Guantanamo Bay Timeline - 'Gitmo gives terrorists powerful recruitment tool' - Gitmo wrong from the get-go

Guantanamo Bay Timeline, Imperial US timeline...


Published on 6 Aug 2013

Ever wonder why Guantanamo Bay is in Cuba, of all places? Or how long it has been around, or why it's not closer to shutting than the day it opened in 2002? We did....Erin Ade breakdowns the timeline of key events.

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'Gitmo gives terrorists powerful recruitment tool'

Published on 5 Aug 2013

It's now half a year since Guantanamo's prisoners began their hunger strike. The US military says the self-imposed starvation protest is waning - because inmates have been eating after dusk as is tradition in the holy month of Ramadan. But painful force-feeding procedures and invasive body searches are still part of the daily routine for many of the prisoners. Keeping the prison running, meanwhile, seems to serve as a recruitment tool for terrorists worldwide - that's what the senior counter-terrorism counsel for Human Rights Watch told RT.

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Gitmo wrong from the get-go, says chief architect


Published on 6 Aug 2013

Guantanamo Bay currently holds 166 prisoners and of those, 86 have been cleared for release. The facility spends approximately $2.7 million per person per year to house and now the chief architect behind the jail is saying Gitmo should have never been built in the first place. According to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense William Lietzau, prisoners should have been legally designated as prisoners of war and either released or officially charged with a crime. Retired Col. Morris Davis and Lt. Col. Barry Wingard weigh in on Gitmo.

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UN sponsored prisoner exchange being considered....

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Justice Department claims al-Qaeda may attack Gitmo ( You can't make it up ! ) LOL

Published on 6 Aug 2013

For the past six months, dozens of detainees have been participating in a hunger strike at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The prisoners are protesting the conditions at the facility, and since the start of the demonstration guards have made individuals subject to invasive searches and have also resorted to force feeding nearly 41 of those still taking part in the protest. According to the Department of Justice, al-Qaeda may attack Gitmo in the near future and are taking these actions to control the flow of information at the prison. So is an attack possible? Pardiss Kebriaei, senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, breaks down the circumstances.
 
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