Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Why closing Gitmo remains a daunting task for Obama
The White House has been picking up the pace of prisoner releases at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Still, actually emptying the prison and shutting down the facility will be difficult because Congress prohibits the transfer of Gitmo detainees to US soil.
Hunger Strike Grows at Guantanamo
With all the national headlines over the last week — bombings and a manhunt in Boston, explosions in Texas, and the Senate’s great debate over gun control — a growing hunger strike by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay escaped most Americans’ notice. The U.S. military says that 94 prisoners are now on a hunger strike at the detention […]
The Medical Ethics of Force-Feeding Guantanamo Hunger Strikers
This week a large team of “medical reinforcements” including Navy nurses, corpsmen, and specialists, were deployed to Guantanamo Bay as a response to the ongoing inmate hunger strike. With about 100 inmates refusing food in protest, the use of force-feeding tubes is now widespread, due to a military directive that aims to keep patients alive, […]