Research Director of human rights organisation CagePrisoners Asim Qureshi explains why he is on a hunger strike on behalf of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. He draws comparisons with the great famine in Arabia at the time of Umar bin al-Khattab’s (ra) caliphate and hunger strike being an effective political statement which he initially disagreed with.
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