Outcry over Guantanamo grows, as does hunger strike

May 07, 2013 00:25

Free them or put them on trial. Thus urges a petition to President Barack Obama over the prisoners held at Guantanamo, jailed and in limbo for more than a decade.

The petition launched by Guantanamo's former chief military prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis has been signed by more than 145,500 people for the president to bring some kind of closure to the fate of the terror suspects at the US prison on the eastern tip of Cuba.

At Guantanamo prison, the men in indefinite detention seek to draw attention to an unprecedented hunger strike nearly two-thirds of them are waging. Today, the stir enters its fourth month with prison officials saying that 100 of the "war on terror" detainees were observing the strike, out of a total of 166.

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