FILE: Actor and rapper Mos Def appears in 'force-feeding' video for human rights group Reprieve

Record ID: 860099

  • Title: FILE: Actor and rapper Mos Def appears in 'force-feeding' video for human rights group Reprieve
  • Date: 9th July 2013
  • Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (FILE - NOVEMBER 12, 2008) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) MOS DEF WALKING ALONG NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE - MAY 11, 2003) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) ACTOR AND RAPPER MOS DEF SAYING: "I kind of passed on the stunt participation. I was rehearsing my lines, so I was detained at the moment."
  • Embargoed: 24th July 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Usa, United Kingdom
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  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Entertainment,General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA3AHQ66NYR24DZ52NJ5LWU05JF
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  • Story Text: The human rights charity Reprieve released a film on Tuesday (July 9) which it says shows actor and rapper Mos Def undergoing a force-feeding procedure on camera as part of a campaign to help Guantanamo Bay hunger-strikers.
    Shackled and dressed in orange prison fatigues, the four-minute film appears to show the star having a plastic feeding tube inserted through his nose by a medic.
    In the end Mos Def - or Yasiin Bey as he is now known - was unable to undergo the full procedure and was heard on the film pleading to "stop, please stop".
    The 39-year-old said afterwards on the film: "I really didn't know what to expect. Then the tube went in, and the first part of it is not that bad but then you get this burning, I got this burning. And then it just starts to be unbearable. It feels like something was going into my brain and it started reaching the back of my throat and I really couldn't take it."
    The film, directed by Bafta award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, was made by the human rights organisation Reprieve as the US government comes under pressure to stop force-feeding Muslim detainees during the holy month of Ramadan.
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