The group said that it was unclear how long the detainees were being held, and that there had been no reports of any of the 700 Han, the dominant ethnic group in China, who attended the Kalachakra being detained.
"Now that it's clear that Guantánamo is such an embarrassment, they are just shipping as many of them out the door as they can, and just keeping enough of them to save face," Clive Stafford Smith, who has long represented detainees at Guantánamo, said.
While Section 1024 says "long-term detainees" are entitled to these new protections, it doesn't define "long-term".
But specialist tasks, such as visiting long-term detainees, have been put on hold.
Those who represent long-term detainees say many cases are dragging on despite the ruling.
The victims were not long-term detainees as in Abu Ghraib, but Iraqi civilians who had been caught stealing food supplies from the camp, aptly named Breadbasket.
Neither is making dozens of long-serving detainees wait even longer in limbo for no good reason, preserving a recruiting tool for America's enemies.
The I.N.S. started to use local jails to house long-term detainees after Cubans held in Oakdale, La., rioted in 1987, burning down much of the prison.
The hunger strike appears to be concentrated in Camp 6, where long-term detainees who comply with prison rules and who are not facing any charges before a military commission live in communal housing.
