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Inmate tries suicide, on hunger strike |
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from The Chicago Tribune
Entered into the database on Sunday, November 20th, 2005 @ 16:30:49 MST |
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A Bahraini man being held at the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects attempted
suicide this week for the ninth time and has begun a hunger strike, according
to newly released court documents. Juma'a Mohammed al-Dossary tried to kill himself Monday by pulling out sutures
on an arm wound he inflicted on himself a month earlier, the chief medical officer
at Guantanamo, Dr. John Edmondson, said in an affidavit filed in federal court
in Washington. Al-Dossary, who has been held since February 2002, also began a hunger strike
in the first week of November to protest not being included in a group of Bahrainis
released from Guantanamo, Edmondson said. It was the fourth suicide attempt in 20 months at Guantanamo. |
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