[Peace-discuss] Miami Herald: Navy nurse refuses to force-feed Guantánamo captive

[Rohn Koester via Peace-discuss]

>
> In the first known rebellion against Guantánamo’s force-feeding policy, a
> Navy medical officer recently refused to continue managing tube-feedings of
> prison hunger strikers and was reassigned to “alternative duties.”
>
 . . .

Word of the refusal reached the outside world last week in a call from
> prisoner Abu Wael Dhiab to attorney Cori Crider of the London-based legal
> defense group Reprieve. Dhiab, a hunger striker, described how a nurse in
> the Navy medical corps abruptly refused to “force-feed us” sometime before
> the Fourth of July — and disappeared from detention center duty.


Crider called the male nurse the first known U.S. military conscience
> objector of the 18-month-long hunger strike in the prison camps, and said
> his dissent took “real courage ... none of us should underestimate how hard
> that has been.”


http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/07/15/4237720/navy-nurse-refuses-to-force-feed.html
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