"It’s important to see what all this Hollywood special effects, melodrama, and glamorization masks. The Guardian’s must-see video of the second Snowden interview may have served to distract attention from another important video they released on Monday. 106 prisoners are on hunger strike at Gitmo, and 44 are being force-fed. To add to the abusiveness, there are apparently not enough staff for the barbaric practice to be inflicted on the detainees before sunrise and after sunset during Ramadan, which is about to start. From emergency motion filed last week on behalf of four detainees (hat tip Marcy Wheeler): Read more at nakedcapitalism/2013/07/your-tax-dollars-at-work-what-force-feeding-at-gitmo-looks-like.html#YM3mMqmjKVjl2fGj.99 "
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:34:38 +0000
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