{"id":1080,"date":"2005-09-21T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2005-09-21T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T13:22:40","slug":"gitmo-hunger-strike-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"Gitmo hunger strike continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneworld.net\/external\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ipsnews.net%2Fnews.asp%3Fidnews%3D30335\">William Fisher<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK, Sep 19 (IPS) &#8211; A hunger strike started in June by terror suspects imprisoned by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo) &#8212; and reportedly settled &#8212; has been restarted and is growing, with 15 detainees hospitalised and 13 being fed through tubes. <\/p>\n<p>The number of hunger strikers varies. The military has said at various times the number is 89 and 76. But a lawyer for a group of detainees says the number is now 200 and growing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As far as their reasons for hunger striking, it seems to be a myriad of different reasons that they all have, the largest one seems to be like they want to protest their continued (detention),&#8221; said British lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, who represents 40 detainees, including one of the hunger strikers, British citizen Omar Deghayes. <\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;Their future is uncertain from a legal point view so they are trying to find out exactly what their future entails.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,169974,00.html\">FOXNews tells a different story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico ? The number of detainees on a hunger strike at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay has fallen by almost two-thirds since last week, a military official said Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Forty-five detainees are currently on the hunger strike, down from 131 last week, Guantanamo spokeswoman Lt. Angela King Sweigart said in an e-mail message. Detainees must miss nine straight meals for the military to classify them as being on a hunger strike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/world\/guantanamo-bay-hunger-strike-desperate\/2005\/09\/21\/1126982123609.html\">Lawyers for some of the detainees<\/a> are saying the Pentagon has refused to inform them of their clients&#8217; health status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Fisher NEW YORK, Sep 19 (IPS) &#8211; A hunger strike started in June by terror suspects imprisoned by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo) &#8212; and reportedly settled &#8212; has been restarted and is growing, with 15 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1080\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-hq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}