AI: 3 Guantanamo inmates on hunger strike in Slovakia, protesting detention conditions

Published November 17, 2014

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Amnesty International says three inmates from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay who were taken in by Slovakia are on a hunger strike to protest conditions at a detention camp where they're being held.

Amnesty Slovakia head Branislav Tichy says one of the detainees informed the rights group about the protest by telephone Thursday. Tichy said the three, who arrived in Slovakia in January, are frustrated because they are isolated under "condition similar to Guantanamo" in the camp for foreigners in western Slovakia.

Bernard Priecel, the director of the Interior Ministry's Migration Office, denied any wrongdoing. He said the three are free to go to a restaurant or see a doctor and will be soon moved to an integration center with no restrictions on their movement.

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