A federal judge ordered Friday the public release of a Guantanamo Bay hunger strike video.
In the video, Abu Wa’el Dhiab is seen being forcibly removed from his cell and force-fed, according to the Associated Press.
Numerous news media outlets pushed the court on June 20 for the tapes to be unsealed.
U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler granted the request, although Kessler said the tapes will remain sealed until some information, such as voices, names and other identifying information, is redacted.
“We are very gratified by this decision, which will enable the American people to see with their own eyes the sorts of abuses that are being heaped on these peacefully hunger-striking detainees,” said Dhiab’s lawyer Jon Eisenberg.
On Thursday, the judge rejected a request by the Obama administration to close a hearing into Dhiab’s case scheduled for Monday.
Dhiab, a Syrian prisoner, has been held at the prison for terrorist suspects, since August 2002.
