Last UK resident in Guantanamo on hunger strike: report

[WorldNews]

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Shaker Aamer, the last British resident held in Guantanamo Bay who is due to be freed in weeks, has said he is on hunger strike and may not make it out alive, the Mail on Sunday reported Sunday. "I know there are people who do not want me ever to see the sun again," Aamer was quoted as saying in the transcript of a conversation with his British lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith. Aamer told his lawyer that he had gone on hunger strike in a protest at an alleged assault by Guantanamo guards to force him to give blood samples.

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