Gitmo prisoners on hunger strike demand bottled water

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Prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay say their jailers are denying them bottled water and forcing them to drink non-potable tap water, as an international Red Cross committee visited on a fact-finding mission.

Military guards have kept the camp cold and denied drinkable water to end the prisoners’ hunger strike, according to an emergency motion filed in federal court, the Associated Press reports.

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