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September 9, 2013

Activists Stage Force-Feeding Outside White House 
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Activists gathered in front of the White House on Friday for the
force-feeding of an activist who has been on hunger strike for over two
months. Andrés Thomas Conteris has staged the fast in solidarity with
hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay and in the California prison system,
which ended just last week. On Friday, Conteris was force-fed through a
nasal tube as demonstrators looked on. He urged President Obama to
either release Guantánamo Bay prisoners or end their forced-feeding.

 

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