Post date: Jul 08, 2013 11:47:50 AM
Cuba ( Next Media) - Prisoners held at the Guantanamo naval base will not be force-fed after dawn and before sunset during the holy month of Ramadan, a detention facility spokesman said in a Reuters report.
Detainees designated for force-feeding are taken twice a day by guards to a camp clinic or private room. There they are restrained in chairs; shackled at the wrists and ankles as a Navy medic or nurse passes a tube through their noses and down into their stomachs. For one to two hours prisoners are fed a drip of Ensure, a liquid nutritional supplement.
Of the 166 foreign captives held at the Guantanamo detention camp, 106 are on hunger strikes. Forty-five of whom are at least partially being fed through nasogastric tubes.SOURCES: Reuters, Washington Post
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/usa-guantanamo-idINDEE9620H420130703
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/05/10/photos-from-guantanamos-force-feeding-facilities/