Judge orders Guantánamo Bay force-feeding videos to be released

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Source: The Guardian

A US federal judge has ordered the disclosure of videotapes that show the force feeding of an inmate on hunger strike at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility.

Days before the first legal challenge to the force feeding was due to begin, Judge Gladys Kessler of the Washington DC district court on Friday ordered the US government to prepare public versions of 28 videos showing a Syrian detainee, Abu Wa’el Dhiab, forcibly removed from his cell and fed through a tube inserted through his nose into his stomach.

Kessler’s ruling came after a coalition of media organisations, including the Guardian, applied for disclosure of unclassified versions of tapes that the US government has never made available.

The Justice Department and the military only acknowledged the existence of the tapes last year in filings to Kessler.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/03/guantanamo-force-feeding-videos-released

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1. I tried to watch nurses put a tube through my Mom's nose into her stomach...

I almost threw up...and she was having it done to reduce stomach acid due to an upper intestine blockage.

These guys are being restrained and having it forced into them...talk about torture.

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our group has been protesting US policy of torturing since 2003.

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