Amnesty International: USA must not hunt down or prosecute whistleblower Edward Snowden

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39. Well we haven't drop down to the level of a Russia goolag or re-education camp of China gitmo is

at least half the half the way down the slippery slope to a goolag. Have you for gotten that there are over hundred prisoners on hunger strike in gitmo because the conditions are so bad? They been on the strike for coming up on 140 days. That at least 88 of them are cleared for release? That doctors consider force feeding a mentally competent person torture?




" SAMI AL-HAJJ: See, first they take you to hospital, after 30 days. They make some test to make sure that you didn’t eat any things. After that, they start feeding you first in hospital, and they put shackles in our two legs and two hands, also like that, and starting putting the tube inside your nose.

AMY GOODMAN: So they shackle you to a bed.

SAMI AL-HAJJ: Yes.

AMY GOODMAN: You’re lying horizontal.

SAMI AL-HAJJ: Yes. This is the first time.

AMY GOODMAN: And they stick a tube up your nose.

SAMI AL-HAJJ: Yes, they put you to tube. And when they put you to tube, they’re using force, not by—like that. They put it quickly. That’s why they go to—sometimes to lungs, not to stomach. And they put—

AMY GOODMAN: So they push with force—

SAMI AL-HAJJ: Yes, yes.

AMY GOODMAN: —and then it sometimes goes into your lung—

SAMI AL-HAJJ: Lungs, yes.

AMY GOODMAN: —not your stomach.

SAMI AL-HAJJ: Yes. And so, for that, when they start by water, so you start coughing like that.

AMY GOODMAN: Because the water goes into your lungs.

SAMI AL-HAJJ: Yes, yes, yes, yes. And after the first time, they put you also in isolations. They collected all the people who are on hunger strike. And at that time, we are about 20 peoples in that camp. And they have a special chairs. They sit you in the chair, and they put shackles. They put strap heres, one; and the second here; third here. Same like that, it will be like that. And there is a two—two band like that, coming from here."

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/8/exclusive_as_gitmo_turns_11_al


"making cells "freezing cold"... one detainee who was admitted to hospital 10 days ago after a nurse had pushed the tube into his lungs rather than his stomach, causing him later to cough up blood. ... "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/22/us-efforts-guantanamo-hunger-strike


http://www.democracynow.org/topics/guantanamo