"During our recent 10-day visit we were able to visit the infirmary, see the detainees and speak with them as well as the American authorities," she added.
A spokesman for the Guantanamo prison operation, Lieutenant-Colonel Jeremy Martin, said on Thursday that 28 prisoners were on hunger strike, meaning they had missed nine consecutive meals, and that 22 were being force-fed.
"All the detainees are clinically stable and will continue to receive nutrition and fluids as needed," Martin said by e-mail.
The ICRC backs a 1975 Tokyo declaration by the World Medical Association stating that doctors should not take party in force-feeding but keep prisoners informed of the sometimes irreversible consequences of their hunger strike, Notari said.
Amnesty International and human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, a lawyer representing some 40 detainees, said on Thursday that U.S. authorities were keeping 21 alive by forcing food into their stomachs through tubes pushed up their noses.
The prisoners were on the 56th day of their strike and were shackled to their beds 24 hours a day to stop them removing the tubes, Stafford Smith said.
Force-feeding is not banned under international law, but the World Medical Association declaration, endorsed by the American Medical Association, sets guidelines for doctors involved in hunger strikes and says they should not participate in force-feeding.
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