The U.S. military has acknowledged for the first time the number of
prisoners on hunger strike at the military prison has topped 100. About a
fifth of the hunger strikers are now being force-fed. Lawyers for the
prisoners say more than 130 men are taking part in the hunger strike,
which began in February. One of the hunger strikers is a Yemeni man
named Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel. In a letter published in The New York
Times, he wrote: "Denying ourselves food and risking death every day is
the choice we have made. I just hope that because of the pain we are
suffering, the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantánamo
before it is too late." We speak to attorney Carlos Warner, who
represents 11 prisoners at Guantánamo. He spoke to one of them on
Friday. "Unfortunately, they’re held because the president has no
political will to end Guantánamo," Warner says. "The president has the
authority to transfer individuals if he believes that it’s in the
interests of the United States. But he doesn’t have the political will
to do so because 166 men in Guantánamo don’t have much pull in the
United States. But the average American on the street does not
understand that half of these men, 86 of the men, are cleared for
release."
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