Doctors to Obama: Let us treat hunger-striking detainees at Guantanamo

June 19, 2013 -- Updated 0226 GMT (1026 HKT) (CNN) -- In an open letter to President Barack Obama published Tuesday, dozens of doctors asked to be allowed to treat hunger-striking prisoners at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For four months, many detainees at Guantanamo have been on a hunger strike, protesting their detention at the facility. "It is clear that they do not trust their military doctors," the more than 150 doctors and other medical professionals wrote in an open letter published online by The Lancet medical journal. "They have very good reason for this, as you should know, from the current protocols of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo, which those doctors are...