GUANTANAMO BAY, March 18: The United States has censored a gruesome drawing by a Guantanamo Bay detainee depicting him as a skeleton and being force-fed at the military prison, the man’s lawyers said on Monday as they released a copy of the sketch.

The detainee, Sami Al Haj, a Sudanese cameraman for the Al Jazeera TV network, marked his 431st day on hunger strike on Monday at Guantanamo, the American base in Cuba where the US holds some 275 men suspected of terrorism or links with Al Qaeda or the Taliban.

“My picture reflects my nightmares of what I must look like, with my head double-strapped down, a tube in my nose, a black mask over my mouth, with no eyes and only giant cheekbones,” Al Haj said in a statement released by the British legal rights group, Reprieve.—AP