Kurdish Filmmaker Recounts 'Inhumane' ICE Force-Feeding That 'Broke Him'
Force-Fed by ICE
Gabar Choli, a Kurdish asylum seeker, was force-fed by ICE for nearly eight months during a hunger strike in a Texas detention center. He describes being wrestled down, shackled, and having tubes shoved through his nose, leaving him physically and mentally broken. The Guardian's investigation reveals at least 18 hunger strikers faced involuntary treatment under the Trump administration, with critics calling it torture.
It just broke me, mentally broke me.
- culi
I think every American should also read the ACLU's report (Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigration Detention).
https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/resistance-retaliati...
Some of the issues it highlighted:
- forced labor in order to afford to eat. The $1/day "Voluntary Work Program" is the only way to get enough food to live. And if you refuse to work or try to protest, ICE doesn't have to give an excuse to send you into solitary confinement. CoreCivic sells this labor to companies
- extensive use of solitary confinement often for "minor disciplinary infractions or as a form of retaliation for participating in hunger strikes or for submitting complaints"
- dozens of documented deaths from forced labor and medical neglect
All of these conditions have only gotten much worse.
- freediddy
I'm actually confused as to what the policy should be.
Should ICE or whomever else just like the people on hunger strikes die? Or should they continue force-feeding the people on hunger strikes? Neither seem like a good solution but I don't know what the alternatives are, besides giving in to the hunger strikers, which is most likely never going to happen otherwise everyone would hunger strike to get whatever they want.
- tartoran
Wow, this is horrific treatment. I hope to see the day the perpetrators will punished.