Andy Worthington on the news that Abdul Rahman Shalabi, on hunger strike since 2005, is "occasionally" eating solid food.

The US authorities try to dress up force-feeding prisoners at night as kindness and concern during Ramadan.

Here's a new twist in the U.S. military's Islamic sensitivity effort in the prison camps for suspected terrorists at the Guantánamo Bay Navy base:

Military medical staff are force-feeding a secret number of prisoners on hunger strike between dusk and dawn during the Muslim fasting holiday of Ramadan.