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April 14, 2009

Ex-Gtimo Prisoner: Conditions Worsened at Jail Under Obama
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A former prisoner at Guantanamo said conditions worsened at the prison
after President Obama took office. Binyam Mohamed made the comment in an
interview posted on the Cage Prisoners.com website.

Binyam Mohamed: “They started implementing rules, degrading rules, where
they pushed most of us to actually go on hunger strikes. And if you look
at the records, before the new administration took over, there was only
about ten to twenty people who were on hunger strike, and right after
the new administration took over, it went all the way to forty-something
on tube feeding and another hundred just on hunger strike.”

Binyam Mohamed was released from Guantanamo in late February after seven
years in US custody. Mohamed says he was repeatedly tortured while being
held at a secret CIA prison and at Guantanamo.



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