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»Das Militär hat brutale Gewalt gegen die Hungerstreikenden angewandt«

Offener Brief des Guantánamo-Häftlings Abdelhadi Faraj über seine Haftbedingungen, 2.7.2013 (engl. Originalfassung)

This is my call to the outside world from behind these rusty bars, in this monstrous cell. Does the world know what is happening in this prison?

Despite the long years we the prisoners have spent in this place from 2002 to 2013, the American government does not seem interested in solving the problem. The past few months have been among the harshest lived by the prisoners here. During the Bush years, solutions seemed possible. Under Obama, it seems like there is no will to solve the problem.

I once lived communally with the other prisoners in Camp Six. Now we are all in solitary confinement here, with only two hours of recreation a day. Some prisoners are too weak and sick to ever leave their cells as a result of the hunger strike and the U.S. military's reaction to it.

The military here has used brute force against the hunger strikers...

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