A United Nations' inquiry will call for the immediate closure of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees. [...]One imagines allowing them to starve to death would be decried as torture as well.
The report calls for the United States to halt all "practices amounting to torture," including the force-feeding of inmates who go on hunger strike.
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Monday, February 13, 2006
Food: The New Torture
The United Nations has decided that feeding hunger strikers in not tantamount to torture. When we do it, it is torture.
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