Guantanamo Bay

Video: Andrés Thomas Conteris Undergoes Nasal Tube Feeding in Solidarity With Guantanamo Hunger Strikers

October 19, 2013 Witness Against Torture, www.youtube.com Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Torture, Video, Wars and Militarism

Andrés Thomas Conteris — on day 103 of a water-only fast — will undergoed a nasal tube feeding in solidarity with the men at Guantánamo and to dramatize the cruelty of force-feeding. Conteris, who has lost 57 pounds, has undergone nasogastric feedings at the White House, in Oakland, California, and at US embassies in Uruguay and Argentina. Conteris, age 52, began his fast at the height of the Guantánamo hunger strike July 8, when thousands of US prisoners began hunger striking to protest the use of extended solitary confinement at Pelican Bay and other prisons.

Activist To Undergo “Forced-Feeding” In Solidarity With Guantánamo Prisoners

October 17, 2013 Jeremy Varon, www.witnesstorture.org Resist! Government, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

Andrés Thomas Conteris — on day 103 of a water-only fast — will undergo the nasal tube feeding. “Forced-feeding is torture,” says Conteris, who has lost 57 pounds. “I wish to make visible what the U.S. government is perpetrating against prisoners in Guantánamo and to remind the world that indefinite detention continues.” Conteris, age 52, has held nasogastric feedings at the White House, in Oakland,California, and at US embassies in Uruguay and Argentina. “The nasal tube feeding feels like endless agony,” says Conteris. “It feels like I’m drowning.” Beginning last February, more than 100 men at Guantánamo engaged in a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. To try to break the protest, the US military subjected dozens of the hunger strikers to nasogastric force-feeding. “The case before the appeals court goes to the heart of the evil of Guantánamo,” says Witness Against Torture organizer Jeremy Varon, “as it argues that the purpose of force-feeding is to sustain an illegal and immoral policy of indefinite detention.”

The Aamer Appeal To Stop Force-feeding In Guantanamo

October 17, 2013 Palina Prasasouk, www.opednews.com Resist! Government, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights

Lawyers for Shaker Aamer , the last British resident in Guantanamo Bay have filed an appeal in the case of Shaker Aamer vs. Barack Obama, a case that was first filed in June 2013 to halt the force-feedings of hunger strikers Aamer, Ahmed Belbacha, and Nabil Hadjarab. This is one of four consolidated appeals, one for each of four detainees, with Aamer's being the lead case, which, if won, could end all force-feeding in the prison, a rare victory in the twelve years that Shaker Aamer has already lost. Shaker Aamer is one of 164 detainees currently in Guantanamo Bay, and one of 84 detainees cleared for release. He has been cleared since 2007 by a military review board and again by President Obama's inter-agency Guantanamo Review Task Force in 2010.

Guantanamo Prisoner Writes After Being Forced Feed

October 15, 2013 Moath al-Alwi, www.america.aljazeera.com Resist! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Guantanamo Bay, Wars and Militarism

I write this after my return from the morning’s force-feeding session here at Guantanamo Bay. I write in between bouts of violent vomiting and the sharp pains in my stomach and intestines caused by the force-feeding. I have been on hunger strike for almost nine months, since February. The guards dragged me out of my cell at around 8:20 a.m. As they took me, shackled, past the other cells and toward the restraint chairs — my brothers and I call them torture chairs — I could barely breathe because of the smell. Some of my brothers are now tainting the walls of their cells and blocking the air-conditioning vents with their own feces in protest. The U.S. military prison staff’s intent is to break our peaceful hunger strike. No form of pressure is too cruel or petty for our captors. It may be hard to believe, but one of my fellow prisoners now weighs only 75 pounds. Another weighed in at 67 pounds before they isolated him in another area of the prison facility.

Letters Detail Punitive Tactics Used On Guantánamo Hunger Strikers

October 15, 2013 Mark Townsend, www.theguardian.com Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Torture, Wars and Militarism

The US military secretly used a variety of tactics to break the resolve of the Guantánamo Bay hunger strikers, including placing them in solitary confinement if they continued to refuse food, newly declassified interviews with detainees reveal. One prisoner also said that the last British resident held inside the camp,Shaker Aamer, had been targeted and humiliated by the authorities to the point where it became impossible for the 44-year-old to continue his protest. The US military recently announced the end of the six-month mass hunger strike among detainees at Guantánamo Bay. But human rights groups argue that such proclamations are disingenuous as at least 16 inmates are still force-fed daily, and two are in hospital. One detainee, 42-year-old Syrian national Abu Wa'el Dhiab, reported that the Extreme Reaction Force team, the camp's military riot squad, would "storm" Aamer's cell five times a day in an attempt to crush his resolve during the strike.

Pentagon Appoints New Envoy To Help Close Guantánamo

October 10, 2013 Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com Educate! Guantanamo Bay

The Pentagon has appointed a new envoy for the arduous and controversial task of finally closing the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, five months after the position was announced. Paul Lewis, a lawyer on the Democratic staff of the House armed services committee, will be the special envoy for Guantánamo closure, the Defense Department announced Tuesday. The job is a new one for the Pentagon, complementing a similar position at the State Department. President Obama announced its creation in May during a major national security speech in which he recommitted himself to his thwarted goal of shuttering Guántanamo. Unlike the State Department position, however, Lewis will have the additional challenge of finding third countries to take custody of the US military’s several dozen non-Afghan detainees in Afghanistan.

Rules For (Hunger-Striking) Radicals

September 26, 2013 Nadine Bloch, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Guantanamo Bay

Over the past few months, an amazing number of people have been fasting or on hunger strike for peace and justice all over the world, earning relatively sparse media coverage, and winning few demands. But this current wave of hunger strikes has expanded the traditional approach to these tactics and offers a look at some new techniques — as well as challenges for those who are currently fasting or thinking about using their hunger as a path to justice. At its zenith this summer, 30,000 hunger-strikers in the California prison system fasted for adequate and nutritious food, constructive programming and an end to torturous solitary confinement. In July, approximately 100 detainees in Guantánamo were on hunger strike demanding due process and release from illegal imprisonment.

Please Help Andy Worthington Raise $2500 For His Guantánamo Work

September 21, 2013 Andy Worthington, www.andyworthington.co.uk Organize! Guantanamo Bay

As the days begin to draw in, I hope you have had a good summer. I managed to take two weeks off, when I was completely offline for the first time in seven years. However, both before and after the break, my time has been, and continues to be taken up by the campaign for justice for the Guantánamo prisoners — documenting their stories, documenting those involved in the ongoing hunger strike, seeking release for the 84 men cleared for release since January 2010, and seeking adequate reviews, trials or release for the other prisoners still held.

Married A Month, Her Husband Now In Guantanamo For 10 Years

September 11, 2013 Zofeen T. Ebrahim, www.dawn.com Educate! Guantanamo Bay

Oblivious to the aftershocks of the Sept 11 attacks that left the world reeling from it, Fawzia, the 14-year-old bride of Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani, was leading a blissful marital life. Little did she know it was soon going to end when on the night of Sept 10, 2002, just a month into their marriage, her husband was whisked away from their home in Bahadurabad by authorities. This Sept 10, he will have gone 11 years. It was six years later that she found that he was among the 779 incarcerated in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp. “I had no idea what or where Cuba was; I had never even heard of it,” says Fawzia, whose life has since been on hold.

Molly Crabapple: Inside A Guantanamo Bay Prison Tour

September 10, 2013 Molly Crabapple, www.vice.com Educate! Guantanamo Bay, Human Rights, Wars and Militarism

I first came to Gitmo to cover the military commissions. During my second trip, I was the third artist granted permission to draw the prisons. The Joint Task Force offers journalists a carefully choreographed tour—the point of which is to show that the Bad Old Gitmo of public perception is not Gitmo Now. Bad Old Gitmo existed from approximately 2002-2007. Its orange jumpsuits, water-boarding, detainees sleeping in what Granger, who served at Guantanamo in 2002, gleefully described as “dog kennels.” Its guards pummeling prisoners in revenge for September 11. Bad Old Gitmo, like so many icons of the Bush era, is Not Humane. And “humane” is the catchword of Gitmo now.

Guantanamo-Style Force Feeding On Obama’s Doorstep

September 7, 2013 Ryan J. Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Guantanamo Bay, Video

A Guantanamo protester had a tube snaked through his nose and down his throat, with liquid nutrient pumped into his stomach just steps from the White House on Friday. The protester, Andrés Thomas Conteris, had been fasting for 61 days and dropped over 50 lbs. since July 8. Conteris, 52, squirmed in his wheelchair as the tube was inserted through his nose by a doctor identified as Terry Fitzgerald. "It felt like endless agony," Conteris said of the procedure. "They're not intentionally trying to harm me and it feels horrible, it feels insanely painful." Conteris said it was painful to speak or swallow and that he had the urge to vomit.

US Hunger Striker to Undergo Forced Feeding at White House

September 5, 2013 Staff, http://www.closegitmo.net/ Resist! Guantanamo Bay

CloseGitmo.net organizer Andrés Thomas Conteris on day 61 of his fast in solidarity with hunger striking prisoners in Guantánamo and Pelican Bay— will undergo a nasogastric feeding in front of the White House on Friday, September 6 at noon. Conteris will underscore the brutality of force-feeding, to which dozens of men at Guantanamo have been subjected since a new hunger strike began last February, and which California officials have threatened for hunger striking prisoners in Pelican Bay protesting the use of extended solitary confinement in US prisons. The American Medical Association, the United Nations, and Senators John McCain and Diane Feinstein have all condemned force-feeding. The tube feeding of Conteris, administered by a medical professional, will be webcast live at http://closegitmo.net .

Guantanamo Hunger Strike Continues

August 28, 2013 Matt Daloisio, www.witnesstorture.org Organize! Guantanamo Bay

Over 90 days have passed since President Obama’s second promise to close Guantanamo. Thirty-six men remain on Hunger Strike in Guantanamo, with thirty-two being force fed twice a day. Sadly, this is who we are. But it is within our collective power to stop it. Our Rolling Fast continues in solidarity with these men – calling for Guantanamo to be closed. A note recently received from Moath al-Alwi – imprisoned in Guantanamo and a participant in the Hunger Strike: "We thank all of those who stand in solidarity with our hunger strike, those who support us, inside and outside America."

White House’s “Secret” Plan to Close Guantanamo

August 23, 2013 Jason Leopold, www.pressfreedomfoundation.org Educate! Guantanamo Bay

Daniel Klaidman, the national political correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek, got a hold of the White House's two-page plan and wrote a report about it a week after the Senate subcommittee hearing under the exaggerated headline, "Obama's Secret Gitmo Plan." It's hardly a "secret" plan, as Klaidman claimed, seeing that the White House distributed the materials so widely. The human rights community also obtained copies of the document. Still, Klaidman, who did not post a copy of the White House's plan, an omission that I'm correcting here by publishing the document in full, was right in noting that the document "makes clear that the administration’s vision for closing Gitmo is more like a mirage, one containing many of the political elements that have served to frustrate progress on issue after issue over the past five years."

VIDEO: James Yee Speaks About Arrest While Chaplain At Guantanamo

August 16, 2013 Searching for Occupy, www.youtube.com Educate! Guantanamo Bay, Torture, Video, Wars and Militarism

After being officially recognized twice for outstanding performance, Captain Yee was arrested and imprisoned in a Naval brig for 76 days in September 2003 while being falsely accused of spying, espionage, and aiding the alleged Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners. He was held in solitary confinement and subjected to the same sensory deprivation techniques that were being used against the prisoners in Cuba that he had been ministering to. After months of government investigation, all criminal charges were dropped. With his record wiped clean, Chaplain Yee was reinstated to full duty at Fort Lewis, Washington. He tendered his resignation from the U.S. Army and received an Honorable Discharge on January 7, 2005. Upon separation he was awarded with a second Army Commendation medal for "exceptionally meritorious service."

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