Lawyers for a Guantánamo prisoner on hunger strike are challenging a military doctor’s assertion that prisoner Tariq Ba Odah is clinically stable even though his weight has dropped to 74 pounds.

Ba Odah’s lawyers said in a filing with a federal court in Washington Friday that the prisoner is gravely ill and should be immediately released. Medical experts hired by the Center for Constitutional Rights dispute the military’s claim that the 5-foot-3-inch tall Yemeni in his 30s is getting adequate treatment at the detention center holding 116 captives in Cuba, an undisclosed number of them on hunger strike. ...

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