US judge allows force feeding of Guantanamo prisoner to continue
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of
Columbia [official website] issued an order [text, PDF] late Thursday
allowing the military to resume force feeding a Syrian prisoner at
Guantanamo Bay, stating that "the court is in no position to make the
complex medical decisions necessary" to keep the prisoner alive. In the
order, US District Judge Gladys Kessler [official profile] said that she
would not reissue a recent temporary order [JURIST report] that stopped
the...
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