The Pentagon has engaged in a new form of medical abuse at Guantanamo Bay by force-feeding detainees on a hunger strike in ways that are deliberately painful and cause life-threatening vomiting and weight loss, defense lawyers say.
The gruesome allegations include complaints that doctors and guards intentionally thrust feeding tubes covered in blood and bile from one detainee's nose into another inmate's nose and denied prisoners anesthesia.
The complaints, filed in federal court, prompted a judge yesterday to order the Pentagon to give defense lawyers medical records of force-fed hunger strikers, who attorneys fear are near death.
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