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WAT Update on Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, Ex-GTMO Detainee/Hunger Striker

Jihad Ahmed Mustafa Dhiab, a Guantanamo detainee released with 5 other men to Uruguay in 2014, is continuing a long-term hunger strike in a desperate demand to be allowed to reunite with his family in Turkey.  In a thwarted attempt to travel to Turkey this summer he was detained without counsel in Venezuela.  When he was returned to Uruguay, he took to his bed and has refused to eat or drink liquids.