Hunger strike-out.

• Author: Evans, Zenon
• Position: Guantanamo data ditched - Guantanamo Bay Naval Base's policy on hunger strike reporting - Brief article

The motto of the Guantanamo Bay detention center is "safe, humane, legal, transparent detention." But the center's commitment to transparency no longer includes reports about detainee hunger strikes.

The facility, located in a U.S. enclave on Cuba, houses 164 prisoners, some of whom have never been charged with crimes and are being held indefinitely without trial. Since 2005 many of the inmates have protested their imprisonment with hunger strikes. In December 2013, officials at Guantanamo said that they will no longer release information about the number of prisoners on hunger strike each day, as they had in the past.

"JTF [Joint Task Force] Guantanamo allows detainees to peacefully protest, but will not further their...