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Two Afghans released from Guantanamo Bay claimed Wednesday about 180 Afghans at the U.S. detention facility were on a hunger strike to protest alleged mistreatment and to push for freedom.
   Habir Russol and Moheb Ullah Borekzai, who said they left the
prison camp on Cuba on Monday and were flown to Afghanistan before being freed, said they did not participate in tile hunger strike. They did not say how they knew others were refusing to eat.
   A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Flex Plexieo, said he was unaware of a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay but would inquire.
   Amnesty International in London said it knew nothing about hunger strikes at Guantanamo, other than media reports.
   Russol said 180 Afghan prisoners "are not eating or drinking." He and Borekzai estimated the men were in the 14th or 15th day of’ their fast.
   Borekzai later told The Associated Press the detainees were protest ing because "some of these people say they were mistreated during interqrogation. Some say they are innocent."
   "They are protesting that they have been in jail nearly four years and they want to be released," he said.
   Neff Koslowe, a Washington-based lawyer for 12 detainees from Ku wait, said several inmates told him during a June 20-24 visit to Goantanarno that there was a "widespread" hunger strike over the amount and quality of their drinking water.
   The two Afghans released this week said they had been accused of being members of the former Taliban regime, but both said they were innocent. Neither said how long they had been detained.
   The Pentagon announced, meanwhile, that seven Guantanamo detainees had been released and an eighth transferred to the custody a foreign government. In addition to the two released Afghans, three Saudi Arabians, a Jordanian and a Sudanese were freed, the Pentagon said.
   The three Saudis, who were not identified, were handed over to Saudi security, the official Saudi Press Agency said in Riyadh. It did not specify whether the three were detained the questioning, saying only that "the regular procedures will be applied accordingly."