http://portside.org/2013-05-06/guant%C3%A1namo-not-anomaly-%E2%80%94-prisoners-us-are-force-fed-every-day Ann Neumann May 6, 2013 I know a hunger-striking prisoner who hasn’t eaten solid food in more than five years. He is being force-fed by the medical staff where he’s incarcerated. Starving himself, he told me during one of our biweekly phone calls last year, is the only way he has to exercise his first […]
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http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7leqfhj3%2bWfYbf%2fUovaRQiQZ7iR OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– The will of Palestinian prisoner Samer Issawi triumphed over the injustice of the jailers on early Tuesday and culminated in an Israeli court verdict to release him after eight months as part of a deal with the Israeli prosecutor. The Palestinian prisoner society stated that the Israeli prosecutor agreed on concluding an […]
On Monday April 8th they ran no yard on 4B facility in Corcoran-SHU. We of course investigated as to why we were, yet again, denied yard access without explanation and discovered staff had all gone to some sort of “training.” By chance, or design, one of the N.C.T.T.-Cor-SHU coordinators was under escort by 2 officers who, […]
Lucasville prisoners lead spreading hunger strike at Ohio State Penitentiary by The People’s Minister of Information JR Twenty years ago, there was a prison uprising in a U.S. concentration camp commonly known as Lucasville to the community and prisoners but as Southern Ohio Correctional Facility on paper. A number of people were murdered including a […]
by Annabelle Parker Greg Curry, 48, is a prisoner in the Ohio State Penitentiary, the supermax facility in that state, serving a life sentence following a major disturbance in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF), in Lucasville, Ohio. This disturbance, known as the Lucasville Uprising, started 20 years ago, on April 11, 1993, after the warden, […]
On Monday, April the 15th it was brought to the attention of the Solidarity with Virginia Prison Hunger Strikers Coalition that a hunger strike has been initiated at Wallens Ridge State Prison located in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Based off inside information there are at least 16 individuals participating in this hunger strike. The status of […]
By SAMIR NAJI al HASAN MOQBEL Op-Ed Contributor By SAMIR NAJI al HASAN MOQBEL Published: April 14, 2013 GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba Enlarge This Image Matt Rota Related Times Topic: Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba) Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Readers’ Comments Share your thoughts. […]
By Pardiss Kebriaei April 13, 2013 MSNBC” - I’ve just returned from Guantanamo, where my clients and a majority of the other 166 men there have been on hunger strike for over two months. Most of them have been cleared for release or will never be charged. But the Obama administration has refused to send them […]
Many detainees, who have been refusing food since February, moved into solitary cells to be force-fed and monitored. Guards clashed with prisoners as they sought to move hunger strikers out of communal cells [GALLO/GETTY] Guards have swept through communal cellblocks at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and moved the inmates into one-man cells in an […]
AlterNet / By Alex Kane <!– MailChimp RSS-Email Widget –> The mass hunger strike at the notorious prison camp is shining a light on the festering issue of indefinite detention. Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Photo Credit: Shane T. McCoy/U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons April 12, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up […]
