Guantanamo detainee challenges force-feeding practices

[JURIST] Emad Abdullah Hassan filed a federal lawsuit [text, PDF] on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] that challenges the force-feeding procedures at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Hassan, who has been held in Guantanamo since 2002, alleges that he has been force-fed more than 5,000 times since 2007 [IBT report] in an effort to end his hunger strike. Hassan's case will be the first time at a court will review the force-feeding...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/03/guantanamo-detainee-challenges-force-feeding-practices.php

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