Navy nurse refuses to force-feed Guantánamo captive
Detainee’s lawyer says her client described the Navy medical officer’s refusal as an act of conscientious objection.
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Crider said Dhiab described how he came to witness the nurse’s evolution toward refusing to tube feed across two or three months of treatment the prisoner called “very compassionate.”
“Initially, he did carry out his orders and participate in the tube feedings,” Crider said he told her in a July 10 telephone call. “Once he saw with his own eyes that what he was told was contrary to what was actually taking place here, he decided he could not do it anymore.”
Crider said Dhiab
quoted the nurse as announcing, “I have come to the decision that I refuse to participate in this criminal act.”
The Pentagon calls its Guantánamo tube feeding practice humane and designed to prevent a prisoner from starving to death. Defense lawyers say their clients consider it torture.
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