Courthouse News Service
There is no question that a Guantanamo Bay prisoner whose hunger strike has wasted him down to 75 pounds is gravely ill, but the question raised in federal court Thursday was whether the illness is self-inflicted.
Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed Ba Odah, a Yemeni citizen who was a resident of Saudi Arabia before his imprisonment, has been on a hunger strike for more than eight years.
Having dropped nearly 50 percent of his body weight, Ba Odah resembles images of prisoners from the Holocaust, his attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights have said. ...
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October 23, 2015