Mos Def, a.k.a. Yasiin Bey, Submits to Gitmo-Style Force-Feeding

The procedure follows Guantanamo’s “Standard Operation Procedure” for force-feeding, a document that surfaced on Al Jazeera earlier this summer. The manual, which notes that some detainees have been on hunger strike since 2005, explains: “Just as battlefield tactics must change throughout the course of a conflict, the medical responses to GTMO detainees who hunger strike has evolved with time.”

U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler rejected today a legal claim from a prisoner objecting to the force-feeding during the month of Ramadan, but she challenged President Barack Obama to take on the issue.

“Even though this Court is obligated to dismiss the Application for lack of jurisdiction, and therefore lacks any authority to rule on Petitioner’s request, there is an individual who does have the authority to address the issue,” Kessler wrote.

The Brooklyn-born musician emerged as a hip-hop star in the late 1990s alongside Talib Kweli in their duo Black Star. He has acted in a variety of television series and films, and also has a history of political activism. In 2008, he was arrested in front of the MTV VMAs ceremony in New York City for his unauthorized street performance of his song “Katrina Clap,” a critique of the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina.

Read more: http://world.time.com/2013/07/08/mos-def-a-k-a-yasiin-bey-submits-to-gitmo-style-force-feeding/#ixzz2YVLAPgUA

 

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