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Kurdish film-maker Gabar Choli has told the Guardian that staff at a Texas immigration detention centre shackled, pinned and force-fed him through roughly eight months of hunger strike, treatment he says broke him mentally and left lasting physical scars.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds people facing deportation in detention centres across the country, including in Texas. Some detainees refuse food to protest their confinement, and detention staff have responded by force-feeding them. Accounts from released detainees, such as the film-maker Gabar Choli, are the main window into how that is done.
Gabar Choli told the Guardian he was shackled, pinned and force-fed over eight months while on hunger strike at a detention centre in Texas. He said the treatment mentally broke him and left lasting physical and emotional scars.