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Gitmo Hunger Strikers: Attorneys Win Access to Medical Records

By November 1, 2005October 25th, 2018No Comments

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source: Center for Constitutional Rights

On October 25, 2005, in Washington, D.C., United States District Court Judge Gladys Kessler issued an opinion in the case of four Saudi nationals on hunger strike at the Guant?namo Bay prison camp. In an emergency hearing the week of October 14, lawyers with the New York-based law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, which is working in conjunction with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued for contact with their clients and immediate access to their medical records. The attorneys voiced grave concern for their clients? health, which has reached critical condition since the men began a hunger strike in early August 2005.

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