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May 22, 2014

U.S. Ordered to Provide Video, Records of Guantánamo Force-Feed 
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A federal judge has ordered the government to hand over video footage
showing the repeated removal of a Guantánamo Bay prisoner to undergo
force-feeding. The ruling came in the case of Syrian national Abu Wa'el
Dhiab, who last week became the first Guantánamo prisoner to win a
court ruling stopping his force-feeding since a prison-wide hunger
strike began more than a year ago. In addition to handing over some 34
videotapes, the military has also been ordered to provide medical
records and protocols related to force-feedings. Imprisoned since 2002,
Dhiab remains behind bars despite being cleared for release.

 

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