Dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees have started a new hunger strike at the US detention centre and at least one has written a will in anticipation of starving to death, human rights lawyers say.
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 The New York-based Centre for Constitutional Rights said the hunger strike began because the US Department of Defence reneged on promises to negotiate with prisoners after a June-July hunger strike that involved up to 200 of the 500-plus men detained at the remote base. The military said only 52 prisoners were involved in the first strike, after a released prisoner and lawyers who spoke to detained clients published the news. "The DOD is practising dangerous deception," an attorney with the centre, Gitanjali Gutierrez, said in a statement. "It hid evidence of the hunger strike and prisoner abuse from visiting senators and the public." Spokesmen for the detention mission at Guantanamo could not immediately be reached for comment. |