The Obama administration has today appealed against a federal judge’s ruling that videotapes showing force-feeding of a Guantanamo prisoner should be released.
A federal judge has ordered the Obama Administration to pass attorneys four more videotapes depicting the Forced Cell Extraction (FCE) of a disabled hunger-striker at Guantánamo Bay.
The authorities at Guntanamo Bay have blocked attempts by Shaker Aamer's lawyers to deliver a copy of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago during a recent visit.
A former British intelligence officer has embarked on a week-long hunger strike in support of Guantanamo detainees – in particular British resident Shaker Aamer.
Lawyers for hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees have filed an appeal with the Federal Court of Appeal in Washington, DC against their ongoing force-feeding.
Lawyers for Shaker Aamer, a British resident still held in the prison, have called for the UK Government to ensure that he is next in line for release.