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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- A Sudanese journalist sent to the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2002 reportedly is close to death as his hunger strike surpasses 250 days.
A medical report by U.S. and British psychiatrists said there is strong evidence that Sami al-Haj has given up his fight for life, a condition doctors call “passive suicide,” the British newspaper The Independent said Thursday.
The al-Jazeera journalist, captured in Afghanistan six years ago, began the hunger strike to protest his detention without or trial.
Dr. Dan Creson, a psychiatrist who has worked with the United Nations in Darfur, said the detainee's condition was similar to that of Darfuri women in Sudan whose mind suddenly experiences an irreversible decline after enduring months of starvation and abuse.
Four prisoners have taken their own lives while detained at Guantanamo Bay, the newspaper said.
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