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A Guantanamo detainee launched a landmark legal challenge to force-feeding at the US prison camp .
Seriously ill Yemeni Emad Hassan, who has been held without charge since 2002 and was cleared for release in 2009, will argue that the brutal force-feeding of detainees amounts to torture.
Mr Hassan says he's been force-fed more than 5,000 times since 2007 as the military seeks to smash a hunger-strike by inmates over conditions at the base, causing serious internal injuries.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
As Palestine Action prisoners go weeks without food, alleging dangerous neglect and detention without trial, campaigners warn that a near-total media blackout is hiding a crisis that could turn fatal – and fuel a growing wave of public anger. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
JOE ATTARD explains why trade unionists are rallying in solidarity against the recent arrest of political activists in Gilgit-Baltistan, the northernmost region of Kashmir, administered by Pakistan