U.S. court may allow suits against Guantanamo forced feeding

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court showed a potential willingness on Friday to allow Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers to sue over being force-fed, a practice the Obama administration says is necessary to keep order but that critics call inhumane.

At a hearing of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, two judges on a three-judge panel asked sceptical questions of a government lawyer who argued that the courts have no jurisdiction over conditions at a military prison such as the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.