On Monday the Guardian published video of hip hop star and actor Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def) being force fed according to the standard operating procedure (SOP) used by the U.S. military at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Currently about involve 104 of the 166 detainees at Gitmo are on hunger strike in protest of indefinite detention and treatment conditions, so they are being being force fed (44 undergoe the procedure against their will).
The video notes that the full procedure, which typically takes about two hours to complete, is carried out twice a day.
After about three minutes, as doctors prepare to insert the tube a second time, an off camera voice calls for the doctors to end the simulation because of Bey's cries.
“It is perfectly clear . . . that forced-feeding is a painful, humiliating and degrading process,” Senior U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said on Monday in a ruling stating that she lacked the legal jurisdiction to stop the force-feeding program challenged by four detainees.
Here's the video, produced by UK-based human rights group Reprieve and director Asif Kapadia (WARNING: Disturbing content):
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