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"Mr President, we are all aware of the terrible tragedies that took place at the Boston Marathon earlier this week and in Texas overnight. We express our condolences to the victims, but we continue with this debate because the suffering of one is the suffering of all.
The World Medical Association has stated that, on the 40th day of a hunger strike, ‘irreversible cognitive impairment and physiological damage may begin to occur, after which the possibility of death becomes an imminent risk’. Given that these hunger strikes began on 6 February – over two months ago – it is absolutely right that Parliament today continues with this debate.
Lawyers report that 13 of the 43 hunger strikers are being force-fed, including Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel, who describes his experience of twice daily being strapped to a chair and probed with tubes and a catheter. It is proper for this European Parliament to question whether such treatment is contrary to international standards and ethics.
I have participated constructively in discussions with the US State Department to promote relocation of ex-Guantánamo detainees to EU countries. So I do not apologise for asking them to respond constructively to us today in order to end the deplorable humanitarian situation that these Guantánamo detainees on hunger strike are facing."@en1
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