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A US military nurse at the detention center in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has declined to participate in the force feeding of inmates on hunger strikes, becoming the first conscientious objector to the practice there, US officials said on Wednesday.

In June, a Syrian prisoner at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay said in a court petition that his force-feedings amounted to torture and asked a judge to order his jailers to make them "civilized."

In a way to keep hunger strikers alive, the procedure involves feeding them liquid meals via tubes inserted into their noses and down into their stomachs.

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