RSS Feeds  Judge turns down bid to end Gitmo force-feeding
Tuesday - 7/16/2013, 3:20pm  ET  Associated Press  WASHINGTON
(AP) -- A federal judge Tuesday turned down a bid by three
Guantanamo Bay detainees on a hunger strike to stop the
government from force-feeding them.  Judge Rosemary M. Collyer
ruled that she doesn't have jurisdiction in the case, because
Congress has removed Guantanamo detainees' treatment and
conditions of confinement from the purview of federal courts.
She said there was "nothing so shocking or inhumane in the
treatment" that would raise a constitutional concern.  Collyer
wrote that even if she did have jurisdiction, she would deny the
detainees' motion for an injunction.  While the effort is framed
as a motion to stop force-feeding, the prisoners' "real
complaint is that the United States is not allowing them to
commit suicide by starvation," she wrote. She said that the
United States cannot allow a person in custody to die of self-
inflicted starvation, and that numerous courts have r