Judge rules Briton can be force-fed
Updated on 12 March 2010
A US judge has ruled that prison officials may continue force-feeding a Briton who began a hunger strike in September 2007 over claims he was convicted on a fabricated sexual assault charge.
William Coleman, reportedly originally from Liverpool, who is serving an eight-year sentence for rape, said he began his hunger strike to protest against a corrupt judicial system.
The state of Connecticut began force-feeding Coleman in September 2008 after he stopped accepting fluids, but he argued that the feedings violate his right of free speech.
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