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Doctors demonstrate Guantanamo torture technique at US Embassy.

Guido | 26.10.2005 09:37 | Anti-militarism | Repression | London

On Tuesday some qualified doctors went to the US embassy is London to demonstrate the Guantanamo forced feeding technique which they believe to be 'medicalised torture'.

Firstly restrain prisoner.
Firstly restrain prisoner.

Then invite nurse to insert feeding tube up nose and down into stomach.
Then invite nurse to insert feeding tube up nose and down into stomach.

Pin prisoner to floor if that helps.
Pin prisoner to floor if that helps.

Feed with all American (liquified) apple pie.
Feed with all American (liquified) apple pie.


Up to 200 prisoners have been on hunger strike at Guantanamo bay. At least 22 are being force fed twice a day. This is yet another violation of their human rights. The hunger strike is now entering its 11th week. The doctors have handed letters of protest to the US embassy and Downing street.

For more info about Guantanamo bay and the detainees lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith goto:

www.reprieve.org.uk

Guido
- e-mail: guidoreports@riseup.net

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Guantanimals

26.10.2005 11:58


You can tell a lost cause a mile away. It involves an authoritarian government using force-feeding tactics against a hunger strike.


'Cat and Mouse' Act, 1913:
 http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/cat_and_mouse_act.htm

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