Guantanamo Bay hunger strikes

Captives who did not comply with force-feeding had their arms, legs, and head restrained in a feeding chair to prevent induced vomiting.[1]

The Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikes were a series of prisoner protests at the U.S. detention camp Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The first hunger strikes began in 2002 when the camp first opened, but the secrecy of the camp's operations prevented news of those strikes from reaching the public.[2][3] The first widely reported hunger strikes occurred in 2005.[4]

  1. ^ "I Was Force-Fed at Guantanamo. What Guards Are Doing Now Is Worse". The New Republic. 2017-10-30. Retrieved 2020-08-16.
  2. ^ Barbara Olshansky, Gitanjali Gutierrez (2005-09-08). "The Guantánamo Prisoner Hunger Strikes & Protests: February 2002 – August 2005" (PDF). Center for Constitutional Rights. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-02. Retrieved 2010-01-21.
  3. ^ "Guantanamo Prisoners Go on Hunger Strike". The New York Times. 2005-09-18. Retrieved 2011-05-31. As many as 200 prisoners - more than a third of the camp - have refused food in recent weeks to protest conditions and prolonged confinement without trial, according to the accounts of lawyers who represent them. While military officials put the number of those participating at 105, they acknowledge that 20 of them, whose health and survival are being threatened, are being kept at the camp's hospital and fed through nasal tubes and sometimes given fluids intravenously.
  4. ^ Andy Worthington (2009). "Starvation statistics" (PDF). Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-08.