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“Jihad Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab is a Syrian man who has been a detainee at the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, since 2002. In 2009, the Guantánamo Review Task Force ruled that he was not a threat to national security and could be released. Yet here we are five years later, and Diyab is still imprisoned at Guantánamo, having never been tried, or even accused of a crime, and with no idea when — or if — he’ll ever get out. Last year, to protest their continued confinement, he and many other detainees began a hunger strike.
     One reason many detainees abandoned their hunger strikes is because, twice a day, the government used what is called 'enteral feeding' to ensure that they were getting nutrients. A more common term is force-feeding. The ordeal begins with something called 'forced cell extraction,' which one of Diyab’s lawyers, Jon Eisenberg, described to me as 'a highly orchestrated procedure.
     'A five-man riot squad in complete armor pins the guy to the floor, shackles him, and carries him out,' Eisenberg says. Then the detainee is strapped into a restraint chair — which the prisoners have dubbed the 'torture chair.' One soldier holds the detainee’s head, while another feeds a tube into his nose and down to his stomach. It is very painful to endure. […]
     One of those who testified on Diyab’s behalf, Steven Miles, a professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, said it’s not even a close call. He was first horrified to discover that the government had been lubricating the tube with olive oil instead of a water-soluble lubricant. 'When you pass the tube, some of the lubricant can drop into the lungs,' he said. Olive oil in the lungs can cause an inflammatory reaction called lipoid pneumonia. (The government says it stopped using olive oil as a lubricant over the summer.)
     After listing a half-dozen other ways the government’s force-feeding violated medical protocols, he concluded: 'They turned it from a medical procedure to a penal strategy dressed up to look like a medical procedure. The procedures look nothing like medicine.'”
— Hullabaloo
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