Saturday, March 9, 2013

Rubber Bullets Fired At Guantanamo Bay Detainees During Disturbance


Navy Confirms Rubber Bullets Fired At Guantanamo Bay Amid Allegations Of Widespread Inmate Protests Who Liken Conditions To The 'Darkest Days Under Bush' -- Daily Mail

Defense lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees claim that inmates at the high security facility are starving themselves to death, refusing to sleep in their cells and have been engaged for weeks in widespread protests.

Attorneys for the terror detainees allege that guards at the prison camp on the island of Cuba 'desecrated' a Quaran, which sparked February's hunger protest and claim that conditions have deteriorated to the 'darkest days under Bush'

The alleged troubles comes as U.S. military officials confirmed on Thursday that a guard at the U.S. owned facility fired a 'non-lethal' plastic bullet round to disperse prisoners, hitting an inmate - after one of them tried to climb a fence and others threw rocks at one guard tower.

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More News On The Unrest In Guantanamo Bay Prison

'Non-lethal round' fired at Gitmo detainees in soccer field incident, US military confirms -- NBC
Guantanamo Guards Forced To Fire Rubber Bullets At Inmates For The First Time -- Business Insider
Guard Shoots Gitmo Detainee With ‘Rubber Bullet’ To Quell Disturbance -- CBS/AP
Pentagon IDs ‘non-lethal’ weapon used to quell disturbance by prisoners at Guantanamo -- Washington Post/AP
Weapon used to quell Gitmo disturbance identified -- Huffington Post/AP
Photos: Inside Guantanamo Bay -- CNN

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