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US judge unseals Guantanamo Bay force-feeding tapes | |
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A US judge has ordered the government to release videotapes depicting a Guantanamo Bay prisoner being force-fed while on hunger strike. | |
US District Court Judge Gladys Kessler granted a request from a number of media organisations for their release. | |
The videos show Syrian prisoner Abu Wa'el Dhiab being forcibly removed from his cell and fed. | |
But the tapes will remain sealed until some information, including faces and voices, has been redacted. | |
"We are very gratified by this decision, which will enable the American people to see with their own eyes the sorts of abuses that are being heaped on these peacefully hunger-striking detainees," Mr Dhiab's lawyer Jon Eisenberg told the Associated Press news agency. | |
"Once the truth is fully brought to light, we believe these terrible practices will come to an end." | |
Mr Dhiab has been held at the Navy-run prison in Cuba since 2002. | |
A request for the tapes was made in June by numerous media outlets, including the Associated Press and the Guardian. | |
Judge Kessler granted the request on Friday but has withheld the tapes until identifying information of others seen on them could be obscured. | |
The judge has also rejected a request by US President Barack Obama's administration to close a hearing on Mr Dhiab's case, initially scheduled for Monday. | |
Last year, the Cuban prison had the longest hunger strike in its history, with more than 100 detainees refusing food. | |
Thirty-six people were reportedly tube fed and five hospitalised as part of protests against the conditions in the prison. | |
Mr Obama has faced continuing pressure to close the jail and make alternative arrangements for detainees. |
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