The British Medical Association has written to Barack Obama urging him to immediately suspend the role of doctors and nurses in force-feeding prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay and to launch an inquiry into how the "unjustifiable" practice has been allowed to develop.
The association has also approached pharmaceutical companies that are reportedly supplying the US military with nutritional products used in the force-feeding, requesting that they disassociate themselves from issues surrounding the continuing hunger strike inside the detention facility.
The correspondence – sent to companies including Nestlé, whose product Boost Plus has been reportedly given to inmates being forcibly fed – says that "force-feeding of mentally competent adult hunger strikers is a gross violation of internationally accepted standards of medical ethics" and is "never ethically acceptable" .... http://www.guardian.co.uk