(Roberto Schmidt/EPA)From Times Online:
Nearly a fifth of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay are on hunger strike with the aim of attracting the attention of Barack Obama, military officials have told the Times, with most of them being force fed.
Of the 248 inmates inside the controversial US detention facility, 44 are refusing food, and 33 of those are receiving nutrition with tubes that are forced up their noses and into their stomachs.
On election night, according to one official, news of Mr Obama’s win somehow spread across the prison facility, even though no inmates had access to television that evening, and chants of “Obama! Obama! Obama!” erupted throughout the complex.
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