Court orders Guantanamo commander to explain force-feeding of hunger strikers

[DonViejo]

Source: Agence France-Presse

A US judge ordered a former Guantanamo Bay commander Wednesday to come forward with details about the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the controversial detention camp.

US District Judge Gladys Kessler asked Colonel John Bogdan to explain a standing order issued in May that calls for the use of restraint chairs during the force-feeding of inmates.

Kessler also asked Bogdan to tell lawyers for plaintiff Abu Wa’el (Jihad) Dhiab, a Syrian national held since 2002, why he had been denied a wheelchair when taken to his force-feeding sessions.

And she instructed the US military to cooperate with an independent medical examination of Dhiab, ahead of a motion hearing in September.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/14/court-orders-guantanamo-commander-to-explain-force-feeding-of-hunger-strikers/

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1. U.N. Official Says Gitmo Force-Feeding Violates International Law

A United Nations official called the practice of force-feeding hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay “torture” on Wednesday, adding the world body to a growing list of those concerned over U.S. treatment of detainees there

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/05/01/1946641/un-gitmo-torture/

Aug 1, 2014 Obama:

“In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks."

So last May was still the "the immediate aftermath of 9/11"?

There will never be a prosecution.

[Nye Bevan]

2. Even the UK under Margaret Thatcher did not force-feed the IRA hunger-strikers (nt)