Scores of captives from the Afghan War refused meals on Sunday at Camp X-Ray in Guantánamo, Cuba, in a protest that has lasted five days. But the U.S. military said only 13 of the 300 detainees had kept to the hunger strike since its start. Military officials presented the new tally after finishing a cell-by-cell count of those who had refused food at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base detention site since the start of the protest on Wednesday. Previous estimates of the hardcore hunger strikers had been much higher. The hunger strikers say they’re protesting an incident Tuesday in which a guard stripped a detainee of his turban during prayers. Since then, the military has said detainees can keep their turbans on but must allow searches of them.
Guantánamo Prisoners Continue Hunger Strike
HeadlineMar 04, 2002