"Our common humanity should be self-evident" ... Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay US naval base. Photograph: Brennan Linsley/PA (The Guardian)From Yahoo News/AP:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The long-running Guantanamo Bay hunger strike has grown to 42 prisoners, the U.S. military said Monday, but a human rights group claimed the total was higher.
Gitanjali Gutierrez, a lawyer for the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, told reporters that more than 70 men held at the U.S. base in Cuba were refusing to eat to protest their confinement.
Prisoners who refuse meals are force-fed and none is in immediate danger, said Navy Cmdr. Pauline Storum, a spokeswoman for the detention center.
Even at 42, more Guantanamo prisoners are on hunger strike than any time since the spring of 2006.
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