While you are breaking your fast during the month of Ramadan there are others who are being forced to break theirs while still in detention in Guantanamo Bay. They want to eat and enjoy themselves with family, friend and worship after fasting but they just don’t want to do it in Gitmo Bay. Some of them have been determined to be worthy of being released years ago, yet still remain imprisoned for reasons they haven’t been told. I couldn’t watch this video at the link which details forced feeding of detainees there. Perhaps you can.
As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure
Warning: some viewers may find these images distressing
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