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October 13, 2017

"When Will My Organs Fail?": Hunger-Striking Gitmo Prisoners Say Guards Have Stopped Force-Feeding
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In news from Guantánamo, hunger-striking prisoners say U.S. military
officials have stopped force-feeding them-in a move the prisoners and
their lawyers say threatens to kill them. In an op-ed for The Guardian,
hunger-striking Guantánamo Bay prisoner Khalid Qassim writes, "They have
decided to leave us to waste away and die instead. … Now as each night
comes, I wonder if I will wake up in the morning. When will my organs
fail? When will my heart stop? I am slowly slipping away and no one
notices." Qassim has been imprisoned for 15 years without being charged
with a crime, and writes that a hunger strike was "the only peaceful way
I thought I could protest."


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