Guantanamo Hunger strike gains momentum

There are 502 “enemy combatant” from 40 countries detained in Guantanamo Bay US Naval base on Cuba. Hunger strikes , defined in true military fashion as, ”anyone who passes up nine meals over 72 hours” started protesting five weeks ago on August 8th and there are now 128 prisoners on strike with 18 being "force fed".

They all demand that they be freed or put on trial, some complain of assaults by guards and continue to allege that there has been desecration of Muslim religious items.

The Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York legal advocacy group quoted prisoner Shaker Aamer, a Saudi who later moved to London and was captured by allied forces in Afghanistan, saying that the hunger strike was triggered when authorities placed some detainees who belonged to a "prisoners council" in isolation cells. Picture shows UK citizen Moazzim Begg who was released early this year at an election meeting for Craig Murray in Blackburn.

Maj. Jane Boomer, a Pentagon spokeswoman assigned to the Office of Military Commissions, said that the Military Commissions were being held in abeyance, awaiting a decision on whether the Supreme Court would grant a challenge to the legality of the process, which is expected by the end of September.

The "extra legal" procedures of "special rendition" and imprisonment without trial of "enemy combatants" are a breach of all Human Rights, in breach of the Geneva Concentions and the US Constitution. They are also undertaken without demur by HM Government and it's servile Ministers who act as Bush's lickspittles.