By Agence France-Presse
Monday, April 15, 2013 11:02 EDT

An inmate detained at Guantanamo for over a decade without charge on Monday gave a graphic account of his participation in a two-month-old hunger strike at the US-run military prison.

In an op-ed published in the New York Times entitled “Gitmo Is Killing Me,” Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel said he had lost over 30 pounds since going on hunger strike February 10 and that a fellow inmate weighed just 77 pounds.

“I will never forget the first time they passed the feeding tube up my nose. I can’t describe how painful it is to be force-fed this way. As it was thrust in, it made me feel like throwing up,” Moqbel, 35, wrote.

“Two times a day they tie me to a chair in my cell. My arms, legs and head are strapped down. I never know when they will come. Sometimes they come during the night, as late as 11 pm, when I’m sleeping.

“There are so many of us on hunger strike now that there aren’t enough qualified medical staff members to carry out the force-feedings… They are feeding people around the clock just to keep up.”

Moqbel said he had traveled from Yemen to Afghanistan in 2000 seeking work and fled to Pakistan during the US-led invasion the following year, where he was detained and eventually spirited off to Guantanamo.

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September 11 defendants ‘had emails hacked’
By Agence France-Presse
10:52PM BST 11 Apr 2013

The surveillance was only the latest instance of compromised confidentiality at Guantanamo Bay, following revelations earlier this year that secret censors could block a public feed of court proceedings and that listening devices masked as smoke detectors were hidden in meeting rooms.

The next preliminary hearing for the September 11 defendants had been set to take place on April 22 at the US military base at Guantanamo.

James Connell, a lawyer for Pakistan’s Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said he had filed an emergency motion to the military judge presiding over the case “to pause proceedings in the 9/11 trial after revelations that defense email communications and computer files have been compromised.”

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Military Force Feeding Prisoners at US Gulag

‘Men Live in Guantanamo Animal Cages, Will Never Get Trials’

By RT

The Guantanamo Bay hunger strike has entered its 47th day, with no end in sight. According to the prison’s Director of Public Affairs, 26 inmates are refusing food, with eight detainees receiving enteral sustenance.

The situation has alarmed Lt. Col Barry Wingard, a US military attorney who advocates for Guantanamo detainees.

Wingard spoke to RT about the future of Guantanamo Bay’s 166 detainees.