Fouzi Khalid Abdullah Al Awda - Meetings With Attorneys

Meetings With Attorneys

On September 28, 2005, the Associated Press reported on a meeting between attorneys Thomas Wilner and Kristine Huskey and their Kuwaiti clients. According to Wilner and Huskey, al-Odah and four of his compatriots, were on a hunger strike and had lost a dangerous amount of weight. They reported that al-Odah had been force-fed and could barely sit up.

Human Rights critics argue that the detainees retain the right to give or withhold consent to all medical procedures.

According to Fawzi's lawyer, Thomas Wilner, Fawzi wanted Wilner to file a legal request ordering the removal of his feeding tube. Wilner did file such a request because Fawzi's family was "frantic" and opposed the motion.

Wilner said that at the time, Fawzi looked "like a skeleton".

Al-Odah told his lawyers that camp authorities had warned the hunger strikers that they would start strapping them in "restraint chairs" during their force-feedings.

In an interview in Marie Claire magazine Huskey described her surprise that when she first met with Guantanamo clients, like al-Odah, they preferred food brought from Guantanamo fast food outlets to the Arabic delicacies she and her colleagues had brought from the Continental US. She reported that Al-Odah's favorite was MacDonald's French Fries and ice cream.