Actor and rapper Mos Def (Real name Yasiin Bey) has agreed to be force-fed on camera as part of a campaign to help Guantanamo Bay hunger-strikers.
A four-minute film shows medics forcing a plastic tube through the shackled star's nose and towards his stomach.
The process can take 30 minutes, but in the end Mos Def - or Yasiin Bey as he is now known - was unable to undergo the full procedure and was heard pleading with doctors to "stop, please stop".
The 39-year-old said afterwards: "The first part of it is not that bad, but then you get this burning and it starts to be really unbearable, like something is going into my brain and it reaches the back of my throat.
"I really couldn't take it."
The film, directed by Bafta award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, was launched by the human rights organisation Reprieve as the US government comes under pressure to stop force-feeding Guantanamo detainees.
Here is that film it is a bit graphic:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv3XzxZk3yg[/youtube]
It certainly highlights an issue that's for sure.
A four-minute film shows medics forcing a plastic tube through the shackled star's nose and towards his stomach.
The process can take 30 minutes, but in the end Mos Def - or Yasiin Bey as he is now known - was unable to undergo the full procedure and was heard pleading with doctors to "stop, please stop".
The 39-year-old said afterwards: "The first part of it is not that bad, but then you get this burning and it starts to be really unbearable, like something is going into my brain and it reaches the back of my throat.
"I really couldn't take it."
The film, directed by Bafta award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia, was launched by the human rights organisation Reprieve as the US government comes under pressure to stop force-feeding Guantanamo detainees.
Here is that film it is a bit graphic:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv3XzxZk3yg[/youtube]
It certainly highlights an issue that's for sure.
