Discarding food at Guantanamo Bay. Carol Rosenberg/Miami Herald
At Guantánamo, Captives, War On Terror Devolves Into Fight Over Food -- McClatchy News
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — It’s lunchtime on the communal cellblocks for cooperative captives, and detainees dressed in tan and white camp uniforms are steadfastly refusing the guards’ offer to wheel in food carts.
Only if a prisoner pulls shut a gate to a chute called a sally port can a soldier lock it remotely and send in the meals. And one by one, every block but Delta Block refuses. Some captives call out that they don’t want the food.
Over at Charlie Block, an angular looking detainee is stubbornly ignoring his guards, sitting at an empty, stainless-steel picnic table, watching footage from Mecca on Saudi TV.
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More News On The Growing Hunger Strike At Guantanamo Prison
Lawyers alarmed as Guantanamo hunger strike grows -- Sacramento Bee/AP
Guantanamo Hunger Strike Grows In Response To Government's Failure To Close Prison, Says General -- Huffington Post/Reuters
After Decade Of Detention, Guantanamo Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike -- NPR
Guantanamo hunger strike reflects growing despair -- Business Recorder
Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strike Worsens As Hopes For Prison's Closing Fade -- Rolling Stone
Hunger strike born of Gitmo prisoners’ frustration over failure to close facility -- RT
Is Starving Themselves the Only Way Guantanamo Inmates Can Get Attention? -- Anna Bliss, Policymic
Photo Gallery: Guantánamo hunger strike -- Miami Herald
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