{"id":20043,"date":"2013-09-06T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T18:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=20043"},"modified":"2013-09-06T19:03:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T23:03:36","slug":"september-6-2013-guantanamo-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/09\/06\/september-6-2013-guantanamo-ethics\/20043\/","title":{"rendered":" Guantanamo Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing movement is renewing calls to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, citing concerns about the treatment of prisoners. The practice of force-feeding detainees against their will has been especially troubling to human rights activists. &#8220;They&#8217;re prisoners, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that they&#8217;ve given up every right that they have as a human being,&#8221; says a US Naval Academy professor who visited Gitmo in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing movement is renewing calls to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, citing concerns about the treatment of detainees. &#8220;We need to understand what detention centers of that sort do to the moral fabric and psychic fabric of a soul. They are killing,&#8221; says Nancy Sherman, author of <em>The Untold War<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/09\/06\/september-6-2013-guantanamo-ethics\/20043\/\" class=\"more\">More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":20044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6569],"tags":[321,4915,22,7905,8023,990,4567,4493],"class_list":["post-20043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videocast","tag-barack-obama","tag-guantanamo-bay","tag-human-rights","tag-nancy-sherman","tag-prisoners","tag-terrorism","tag-torture","tag-war-on-terror","topics-law","topics-war-and-peace"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>September 6, 2013 ~ Guantanamo Ethics | September 6, 2013 | Religion &amp; 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