Friday, May 30, 2014
US judge allows force feeding of Guantanamo prisoner to continue
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] issued an order [text, PDF] late Thursday allowing the military to resume force feeding a Syrian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, stating that "the court is in no position to make the complex medical decisions necessary" to keep the prisoner alive. In the order, US District Judge Gladys Kessler [official profile] said that she would not reissue a recent temporary order [JURIST report] that stopped the...
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