Video footage of Syrian prisoner Abu Wa'el Dhiab, who has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, will now be shown in court after challenges from his lawyers and news outlets A federal judge has ordered the public release of 28 videotapes of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner being forcibly removed from his cell and force-fed. Lawyers for the prisoner, Abu Wa'el Dhiab, have challenged his treatment as abusive. Numerous news media outlets, including The Associated Press, had asked the court on June 20 to unseal the videotapes, which are classified 'secret.' U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler granted the news media's request, although Kessler said the tapes will remain sealed until some information on them is redacted.
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Footage of Abu Wa'el Dhiab's treatement will be played in court
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He was on hunger striker when his lawyers claim he was mistreated
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Tapes recorded inside the detention center have been classified as 'secret'
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But news outlets petitioned the court and asked for them to be unsealed
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Some of the footage will be redacted before they are shown
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It includes obscuring faces of all the people in the video except Dhiab
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The Syrian prisoner has been held in the Cuban facility since 2002
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