Hunger strike
Updated on 09 September 2005
Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are several weeks into a hunger strike protesting against abuse and imprisonment without trial, some are being force fed.
They've been on hunger strike for five weeks: their health now so precarious some are being force fed - others are on medical treatment.
More than 200 detainees at Guantanamo Bay are said to be taking the drastic action in protest over their conditions - a figure strongly denied by the US authorities at the base.
Monitors from the International Red Cross are due to visit the detention centre next week to check on their condition.
But a US military spokesman insisted inmates would NOT be allowed to die. Julian Rush reports.
