Lawyers for four Guantanamo captives are asking a federal court in Washington, D.C., to put an end to the “grotesque” practice of forced feeding at the Pentagon prison. Officials defend the use of forced feeding as modeled after U.S. Bureau of Prisons policy. But the lawyers argue that, unlike federal prisoners, these Guantanamo captives have never been charged with a crime and are held not for punishment but more broadly as war-on-terror detainees. “There cannot be a legitimate...
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