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hunger strikers
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Little if any media attention was given to responses to questions based on the classical Bogardus Social Distance Scale, often called the "uncomfortables." ("Would you feel uncomfortable if . . .") These results are perhaps the most significant, as self-identification as prejudiced is not totally unambiguous. Some people would say that everyone has some prejudice toward "the other." So let's turn to the "uncomfortables. Julian Falconer, a Canadian lawyer in his case, would have chosen different wording for Prime Minister Harper's statement, which apologized "for any role Canadian officials may have played" in his and his family's suffering. "Any" and "may have" are rather weak. However, [Maher Arar] was clearly ecstatic. There is one piece of the puzzle which remains to be put in place...
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The prisoner's five demands encompassed five political rights: not to wear prison-issue uniforms; free association with Republican political prisoners; not to participate in prison work; access to, and self-organization of, education and recreation; and one weekly visit, letter, and parcel. At his funeral in his native Tyrone, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness said Matt never fully recovered from the 1981 hunger strike that defined him forever in Republican eyes.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Twice a day at the U.S. military prison here, Abdul Rahman Shalabi and Zaid Salim Zuhair Ahmed are strapped down in padded restraint chairs and flexible yellow tubes are inserted through their noses and throats. Milky nutritional supplements, mixed with water and olive oil to add calories and ease constipation, pour into their stomachs. Shalabi, 32, an accused al-Qaida militant who was among the first prisoners taken to Guantanamo, and Ahmed, about 34, have refused to eat for almost two years to protest their conditions and open-ended confinement. In recent months, the number of hunger strikers has grown to two dozen, and the military is using force-feeding to keep them from starving.
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By Ben Fox The Associated Press
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Protesters who have been on a hunger strike for more than a week were the most visible demonstrators yesterday at Gallaudet University, where students and staff for weeks have been demanding the resignation of incoming President Jane K. Fernandes. Most of the eight protesters on strike have not eaten in eight days. Some of them became ill Sunday and had to be evaluated by medical personnel.
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News Advisory: Members of AIDS groups, student groups, and human rights organizations will hold symbolic hunger strikes in New York City; Washington, DC; and Paris on Wednesday at 1 p.m. EST (Paris event at noon local time) in solidarity with Chinese activists who have been imprisoned by the authorities when they organized similar hunger strikes to protest beatings and detention of Chinese activists and their attorneys.
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WASHINGTON President Bush reiterated Wednesday that he would like to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but his administration is facing an awkward political and legal quandary over what to do with the estimated 460 detainees being held there. Anger over the administration's detention policies, coupled with allegations of prisoner abuse, the force-feeding of hunger strikers and riots at the site, have caused even some close allies to demand its closure and hobbled the administration's ability to promote democracy and human rights overseas.
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JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli jailers might try to break a Palestinian hunger strike with barbecues, hoping the aroma of grilling meat will wear down security prisoners protesting conditions and demanding more access to their families. About 1,600 prisoners launched the strike on Sunday, the largest such protest since the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinians erupted nearly four years ago.
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Jennifer Harbury, a human rights lawyer whose public fasts led to the disclosure of evidence that her Guatemalan husband had been tortured and killed under CIA supervision, spoke to the group about the history of U.S. participation in torture. Christine Husby, a lawyer representing prisoners at Guantanamo, gave the group an update on the situation of the Guantanamo hunger strikers. Orlando Tizon, a Filipino torture victim and member of the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition, recited a poem reflecting on Guantanamo and his personal experience with torture.
