From aljazeera.com
Ten Saudi prisoners held in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, plan to file cases in U.S. federal courts against the American President George W. Bush; demanding to know their charges and requesting a preliminary injunction to release them, Bahrain Center for Human Rights Vice President Nabeel Rajab said, adding that the prisoners will file the lawsuits the coming couple of weeks after the U.S. Center for Constitutional Rights assigned lawyers for each of them.Abusive force-feeding
The U.S. military medics forcefully try to stop Guantanamo detainees from continuing their hunger strike by placing thick feeding tubes through their noses without painkillers, lawyers for the detainees told a federal judge yesterday.
The military medics also recycled dirty feeding tubes used on other detainees, the lawyers said, according to The Boston Globe.
The attorneys described the military actions as abusive, and called on the U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler to order the military turn over their clients' medical records and to permit outside doctors to examine them.
''The allegations are very serious and certainly describe treatment that is needlessly painful, abusive, and extremely inappropriate in terms of needlessly causing further deterioration to the mental condition of the detainees," Kessler said, ordering the government to immediately respond to the allegations.
