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April 12th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Peter Maurer urged US President Barack Obama on Thursday to resolve the ongoing legal limbo of prisoners held at the US prison in Cuba.
Maurer has held talks with Obama and other top US officials in Washington this week, while Red Cross representatives monitored and reported the crisis involving dozens of detainees in the notorious prison.
“There is a discrepancy between the position of the United States and the ICRC,” said Maurer, adding that Red Cross doctors agreed with international medical groups who have denounced the act of force-feeding prisoners.
“If we see a hunger strike today, we interpret this as a symptom, as an indicator about the lack of perspective that those detainees have, the impression of an American government which does not follow up on promises, promises that have been made on transfers,” Maurer said.
Maurer further criticized the US over its failed procedures at Guantanamo including improper reviews of prisoners’ cases and delays in repatriating those who no longer posed a security risk.
“The issue of Guantanamo is politically blocked in this country,” said Maurer, who then urged Obama that his administration “put all their energy” into reaching a compromise over the detention facility.
On Thursday, rights activists staged wide-scale protests in more than 26 cities and 19 states across the United States to mark the “Day of Action to Close Guantanamo & End Indefinite Detention.”
Some 166 inmates at the US military prison have been on hunger strike for almost two months.
The hunger strikers stopped eating to protest their indefinite detention without charges. They are also demanding an end to the intrusive search of their cells and personal belongings.
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