It's now half a year since Guantanamo's prisoners began their hunger strike. The US military says the self-imposed starvation protest is waning - because inmates have been eating after dusk as is tradition in the holy month of Ramadan. But painful force-feeding procedures and invasive body searches are still part of the daily routine for many of the prisoners. Keeping the prison running, meanwhile, seems to serve as a recruitment tool for terrorists worldwide - that's what the senior counter-terrorism counsel for Human Rights Watch told RT.
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