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.
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Emma Foehringer Merchant is a summer 2013 editorial intern.
