{{The sole Kenyan detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba has joined the hunger strike by over 100 prisoners protesting their indefinite incarceration, his family in Nairobi and Mombasa claimed on Wednesday.}}
According to Abdulmalik’s foster mother, Ms Mwajuma Rajab, his son called him on Tuesday and told her that he was on hunger strike and has been boycotting full meals for 83 days.
Family members who live in these towns told media that they have spoken with the prisoner who has been detained by the Americans since February 2007 about the hunger strike and other conditions in Guantanamo through the assistance of the Red Cross Society.
The relatives said the Kenyan detainee renewed in a telephone conversation urged the Kenyan government to secure his return to Kenya.
Some of the striking detainees are being fed through nasal tubes, according to media reports.
American authorities have sent extra medical staff to the Guantanamo detention camp to help deal with a growing hunger strike by its inmates which began in February.
Like the Kenyan detainee most of the inmates at Guantanamo are being held and have not been charged with any crime.
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