Guantánamo hunger strike grows

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:48:00 +0000

As Salon noted last week, according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, over 100 prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been on hunger strike for over a month. Robert Durand, director of public affairs for the Joint Task Force Guantánamo, had, however, denied claims of a mass hunger strike, stating that only nine prisoners were engaged in serious refusal of all food. On Wednesday Reuters reported that the official number of recognized hunger strikers at the camp has considerably grown:

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Guantánamo hunger strike grows