Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Hunger striking Guantanamo prisoners who are force-fed a liquid nutritional supplement undergo a brutal and dehumanising medical procedure that requires them to wear masks over their mouths while they sit shackled in a restraint chair for as long as two hours, according to documentation obtained by Al Jazeera. The prisoners remain this way, with a 61cm - or longer - tube snaked through their nostril until a chest X-ray, or a test dose of water, confirms it has reached their stomach.
At the end of the feeding, the prisoner is removed from the restraint chair and placed into a "dry cell" with no running water. A guard then observes the detainee for 45-60 minutes "for any indications of vomiting or attempts to induce vomiting". If the prisoner vomits he is returned to the restraint chair.
That's just a partial description of the "chair restraint system clinical protocol" which medical personnel are instructed to follow when administering a nutritional supplement to prisoners who have been selected for force-feeding by Guantanamo Commander Rear Admiral John Smith.
Read the rest of Jason Leopold's article here....which includes the new "handbook."
Have you seen the Hunger Strike Song? It's being promoted by World Can't Wait and Witness Against Torture
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http://hippiesympathizer.libsyn.com/-2013-05-09-the-greatest-measure-of-a-society-guantanamo
ReplyDeleteAn activist in Indiana volunteered to be water-boarded before starting a Hunger Strike to bring attention to the conditions of the prisoners in Gitmo.
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Liberata---Thanks for the link to the hunger strike song..up now.
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