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Interview with Omar Farah, staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, conducted by Scott Harris
The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba that President Obama pledged to close during his first year in office continues to operate four years later and is again the focus of attention for the treatment of prisoners held there. A widespread and growing hunger strike by an undetermined number of prisoners among the 166 men held at Guantanamo since early February has resulted in the force-feeding of a number of strikers via tubes inserted into their noses and down to their stomachs. The Pentagon has recently blocked media access to the detention center.
While a military spokesperson says there are only about 40 hunger strikers at the facility, a federal public defender told the media that he believes that over 130 prisoners are participating. In a March 11 letter sent to his defense attorney, detainee Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail, who like many Guantanamo prisoners was picked up in Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion in 2011, wrote that he had lost 41 lbs. According to a translation of the letter released by his attorney, Ismail wrote, “I believe I am going to die in this hunger strike and this might be my last letter or today is probably my last day in this world.”
While there are some accounts that say the hunger strike was triggered by guard searches of prisoner’s copies of the Muslim holy Quran, there is widespread acknowledgment that the protest has grown out of many prisoners’ sense of hopelessness, with some detained for up to 11 years without charge or trial. While the U.S. government has cleared 86 detainees to be released, Congress and the White House have failed to free them. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Omar Farah, staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights who represents Guantanamo prisoners in habeas corpus challenges and in resettlement efforts. Here he talks about the reasons for the hunger strike, and the legal and political issues that have contributed to this humanitarian crisis.
Find more news and analysis about the Guantanamo hunger strike by visiting the Center for Constitutional Rights’ Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative at CCRJustice.org.
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