21 prisoners hospitalized in Guantanamo hunger strike: defense official

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Twenty-one hunger-striking prisoners have been hospitalized at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and all but one of them was being fed through tubes, a defense official said.

"They are listed in stable condition and JTF Guantanamo medical personnel are monitoring their condition," the official said, speaking condition of anonymity.

He said 103 prisoners at the camp for war-on-terror suspects are refusing food, the officials said.

That is down from Tuesday when military officials said 128 prisoners were refusing food.

But the number of inmates hospitalized in the strike increased over the course of the week from 18 to 21.

The defense official said that of those, 20 were being fed through tubes.

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