ICE Reportedly Force-Fed Hunger-Striking Detainee for Months in Case Doctor Calls 'Torture'
Court records show repeated nasogastric tube feedings and restraints after the detainee began a hunger strike in 2025, a practice critics called torture.
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Torture alleged as detainees claim Trump's ICE deploying 'involuntary medical procedures'
Speaking with The Guardian, Kurdish asylum seeker Gabar Choli detailed Monday the torture he says he endured while held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Texas, the latest account of brutal conditions migrants face amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.Choli, 40, began a hunger strike in March 2025 to protest the conditions at the facility, and a new investigation from The Guardian revealed that he was…
ICE Is Reportedly Force-Feeding Its Detainees to ‘Break’ Them
A growing number of reports are detailing ICE’s habitual human rights crime of force feeding detainees—a breach of international law—and still the administration has yet to acknowledge the cruelty. Last week, the Guardian first reported 10 separate cases of force feeding in ICE facilities since Trump re-entered office, a number that crawled to 18 (and counting) on Monday. A handful of these individuals had been engaging in a hunger strike when …
ICE Force-Feeding ‘Mentally Broke Me’
“A Kurdish man who was force fed over the course of eight months while on hunger strike in U.S. immigration detention has spoken out about it for the first time, describing how much the process harmed him physically and psychologically,” The Guardian reports. Said Gabar Choli: “It just broke me, mentally broke me. It came […]
ICE Reportedly Force-Fed Hunger-Striking Detainee for Months in Case Doctor Calls 'Torture'
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly force-fed an Afghan detainee for nearly six months after he began a hunger strike in 2025, with court records showing repeated orders for involuntary treatment and one doctor describing the practice as 'torture'. The case is among 10 reviewed by The Guardian since Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, in which ICE sought court approval to subject detained immigrants on hunger strikes t…
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