While Senator Dianne Feinstein has repeatedly sent letters to object to the coercive and painful methods the Pentagon uses to force-feed hunger strikers, she is not known to have done more, such as hold a hearing on the practice.
In 2006, John S. Edmonson, the doctor who commanded the hospital at Guantanamo, said he used tubes forced down prisoner's nasal passages to force-feed hunger strikers there. .
By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, June 12 (Reuters) - U.S. military doctors should refuse orders to force-feed hunger strikers at the Guantanamo detention camp because it violates their ethical obligations, two doctors and a medical ethics professor wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday.
Now, in an initiative fiercely criticized by both medical and political circles, Israel is considering legislation to allow force feeding hunger strikers in prison.
In the early 1980s, Dr John Kalk shamed South Africa's apartheid regime by refusing to force-feed hunger-striking activists who were detained without trial.
In a most grim example, Ensure has been used via nasal intubation to force-feed hunger-striking prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, but that's far from a normal use case.
— The rapper and actor Yasiin Bey, formerly known as Mos Def, in a video made by the human-rights group Reprieve in which he allowed himself to be subjected to the procedure used to force-feed hunger-striking detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
Three days of legal arguments concluded Wednesday in the first-ever court challenge to the controversial US practice of forcibly feeding hunger-striking detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
Meanwhile, the Navy nurse who faces a Board of Inquiry for refusing to force-feed hunger-strikers (including Dhiab) is attracting much media interest.
This vision of a humbled Wallace with his pecker toys and his day job begins to feed another hunger, one of the trickiest hungers for any biography to satisfy: the Hunger for Mythic Double-Vision.
