Yasiin Bey, the rapper formerly known as Mos Def, demonstrates the cruelty behind force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay by voluntarily experiencing the procedure in a video commissioned by the human rights organization Reprieve and directed by award-winner Asif Kapadia. Currently, 40 of the more than 100 hunger strikers at the prison are being force-fed.
Free for any DSA or Union member
Get 10 print issues of our award-winning, worker-first journalism here!
Emma Foehringer Merchant is a summer 2013 editorial intern.
