FORCE-FEEDING AT GUANTANAMO BAY DETENTION CAMP

Motion Text

That this House notes with concern allegations made by Guantánamo Bay detainee Fawzi al-Odah in a BBC interview that hunger strikers were strapped to a chair and force-fed through a tube three times a day at the detention camp; further notes that Mr Odah was one of 84 hunger strikers at Guantánamo in December 2005; further notes that fellow inmate Mohammed Bawazir has launched a legal challenge against the force-feeding policy under the US McCain Torture Law; further notes that the US administration has since suggested that this law may not apply to Cuba; and calls upon the Government to restate publicly its opposition to the use of torture in all its forms and to express its support for Mr Bawazir's court challenge.