More Guantanamo detainees join hunger strike

More Guantanamo Bay detainees protesting against their indefinite confinement joined a hunger strike, raising the number of those refusing food to 89 from 75, the US military said today.

More Guantanamo detainees join hunger strike
Thu, 01 Jun, 2006 - 20:36

More Guantanamo Bay detainees protesting against their indefinite confinement joined a hunger strike, raising the number of those refusing food to 89 from 75, the US military said today.

Six of the hunger strikers at the isolated US naval base in south-east Cuba were being force-fed, said Navy Commander Robert Durand.

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