Nurse Who Refused to Force-Feed Gitmo Detainees to Return to Work

May 14, 2015

(Newsweek) – A Navy nurse who refused to force-feed detainees on hunger strike at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will not be discharged, his lawyer said Wednesday in a conference call. Instead, the Navy will reassign him to a new position at a health facility in New England. This nurse, who has never been named, spent 18 years on active duty before notifying his superiors last summer that he would no longer force-feed prisoners at Gitmo. The reason: He felt the procedure was unethical.