Videos open window on Guantanamo hunger strike

By Ben Fox
Published June 14, 2014 7:38pm ET



GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The U.S. military has long insisted it employs only humane methods to keep hunger-striking prisoners alive at Guantanamo. That assertion is under new scrutiny due to a judicial order.

Attorneys for a Syrian prisoner have begun studying hours of video showing him being removed from his cell, placed in a restraint chair and fed by a tube with liquid nutrients.

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