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Force feeding Guantanamo?

Updated on 10 January 2006

By Lindsay Taylor

The doctor who has engaged the medical chief in Guantanamo about alleged forcefeeding hunger striking detainees - we have the letters exclusively.


Four years after the first prisoners were brought to Guantanamo Bay - most of the inmates have never been charged.

Dozens are thought to be on hunger strike: now, amid criticism from human rights groups the US army doctor in charge of the camp has responded directly for the first time.

In a letter seen exclusively by Channel 4 News, Dr John Edmondson denies he is force feeding the prisoners, as Lindsay Taylor reports

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