NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD AGREE W A DEMOCRAT BUT STOP FORCE FEEDING TERRORISTS GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein urged the Pentagon on Wednesday to stop force-feeding hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and called the practice "out of step" with medical ethics and international norms.Feinstein, a California Democrat who chairs the Senate intelligence committee, sent a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, saying the Guantanamo force-feeding policy was also out of synch with policies in the civilian federal prisons."Hunger strikes are a long-known form of non-violent protest aimed at bringing attention to a cause, rather than an attempt of suicide," she wrote."I believe that the current approach raises very important ethical questions and complicates the difficult situation regarding the continued indefinite detention at Guantanamo." news.yahoo/stop-force-feeding-guantanamo-prisoners-senator-230732707.html?.tsrc=attmp
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:51:23 +0000
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