Chronicle on Cuba - October 2005

Terrorism

October 7: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that prisoners were on hunger strike at the US Guantanamo Bay prison camp and that the situation there was serious. The humanitarian agency, which last visited the US naval base in Cuba in late September, was in contact with US authorities about the situation, ICRC chief spokeswoman Antonella Notari said. "There is a hunger strike, the situation is serious, and we are following it with concern,'' Notari told the press. (Reuters, 11/10/05)