Guantánamo force-feeding causing 'agony', says US judge

Reprive.org - The US government’s policy of abusive force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay is causing "agony" to prisoners, a federal judge said last night.

Ruling on the case of Abu Wa'el Dhiab – a Syrian cleared for release in 2009, and one of several hunger-striking prisoners currently asking the DC District Court to order a halt to the practice – Judge Gladys Kessler urged the authorities to find a compromise that would spare him “the agony of having the feeding tubes inserted and removed for each feeding” and “the pain and discomfort of the restraint chair.”  Read more.