Guantanamo detainee requests immediate relief amid alleged mistreatment, hunger strike

[JURIST] Human rights lawyers on Tuesday filed an emergency motion [text, PDF] in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] alleging that guards at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] have denied drinking water and sufficient clothing to a Yemeni prisoner. The motion was filed only a day before a fact-finding visit to the US detention center in Cuba by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) [official website], and the lawyers contend that such treatment is...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2013/03/jurist-human-rights-attorneys-on.php

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