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Guantánamo force-feeding claims spur calls for probe
By Jimmy Burns in London and Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington Published: October 7 2005 The Bush administration yesterday faced renewed calls for an independent inspection of its Guantánamo Bay detention facility following allegations that the US military was force feeding 20 detainees on hunger strike. Clive Stafford-Smith, a London-based lawyer acting on behalf of some of the detainees, said the prisoners were being fed through tubes in their noses. “To have my clients being restrained against their will, with a tube forced down their noses, after all they have been …