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February 13th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A US federal appeals court has dismissed demands for an end to force-feeding inmates at the notorious Guantanamo detention camp, a US military prison in Cuba.
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in Washington ruled on Tuesday that prison authorities were entitled to “force-feed a starving inmate actually facing the risk of death.”
Three detainees at Guantanamo had filed a lawsuit in order to end the practice of force-feeding by tubes, arguing it contravened international law and medical ethics. But two lower US courts declined to rule on the issue last year.
There was “nothing specific” to the case of the three plaintiffs that “would give us a basis for concluding that the government’s legitimate penological interests cannot justify the force-feeding of hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo,” the judges said.
Guantanamo authorities have fed hunger-striking prisoners by force on a regular basis using tubes inserted through the nose. There are approximately 25 detainees currently on hunger strikes, with 16 of them being force-fed.
More than 150 detainees are held at the prison. The first detainees were brought there 12 years ago after being captured during America’s so-called ‘War on Terror’.
Last month, Amnesty International said US’s continued operation of Guantanamo and the torture of detainees there is a prime example of America’s double standard on human rights.
The secrecy regarding human rights violations committed by US military and intelligence officials must come to an end, the organization said.
Amnesty also slammed President Barack Obama for refusing to shut down Guantanamo as he had promised in 2009 when he first came to office.
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