Mos Def Force Fed Like Guantanamo Prisoner: Graphic Video Of Being Strapped To Chair, Tube Shoved Down Throat- Unable To Complete Standard Gitmo Procedure

Mos Def was force fed like Guantanamo prisoners. A human rights group arranged for Mos Def to be force-fed, just the way prisoners at Guantanamo Bay prison are, on video (scroll down to watch)...and the results are disturbing.

Mos Def was force-fed via a nasogastric tube shoved down his nasal passages and into his throat. He winces and begs for the painful process to stop...but it doesn't-the glove-clad medics hold him down to the chair he is strapped into.

"Reprieve", the human rights group who arranged for the Mos Def force feeding, posted the video footage at The Guardian. Mos Def is also known as Yasiin Bey.

"There are currently 120 detainees on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay. 44 of them are being force fed against their will", the video opens.

Eventually, Mos Def cannot withstand the force feeding anymore and the process stops without ever being completed.

In Guantanamo, however, the process is carried out about twice a day, usually lasting about two hours.

There is currently debate over whether force feeding constitutes torture-but the video demonstrates that it certainly looks painful.

Guantanamo is not the only place that force feeds people-imprisoned Northern Irish political protestors were some of the first and most infamous hunger strikers.

And even today throughout the United States, patients with anorexia nervosa are tube fed and restrained every day using the same process as the one used on Mos Def/Yasiin Bey and at Guantanamo.

It is currently Ramadan, when, under Islamic law, no food or beverages are consumed during daylight. The force feedings have continued.

The Guantanamo prisoners are being force fed in response to a hunger strike because the prisoners are being held indefinitely, many for years, without ever being charged or going on trial.

The Obama administration says the protocols are being performed "in a humane fashion". But the feedings at Gitmo often have "caused them to urinate and defecate on themselves and that the insertion and removal of the feeding tube was painful," the Washington Post reported.

The "humane" standard procedures include "strapping detainees to a chair, forcing a tube down their throats, feeding them large quantities of liquid nutrients and water, and leaving them in the chair for as long as two hours to keep them from purging the food," according to the Washington Post.

Dozens of inmates at Guantanamo are cleared by the U.S. government as ready for release and posing no threat.

Many other prisoners have never been charged or tried.

Watch the graphic video below: