A force-feeding chair at US Guantanamo military prison’s psychiatric ward, called the Behavioral Medical Unit, taken from a military handout video dated April 10, 2013. The UN human rights body has censured force-feeding of hunger striking captives at US military prison and torture camp in Guantanamo, Cuba as “torture” and a violation of international law, while the number of inmates being force-fed... 

The head of the Red Cross has urged the Obama administration to mend the situation in Guantanamo that has compelled prisoners to starve themselves, and criticized force-feeding as a solution to the hunger strike. “The issue of Guantanamo is politically blocked in this country,” International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer said at a news conference this week. “One...