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The hunger strikers are protesting their incarceration without charge or trial at Guantanamo for the past 11 years.

Lawyers representing inmates at the prison have said most of the estimated 130 detainees at Guantanamo's Camp Six wing, which houses "low-value" prisoners, are on hunger strike.