Revealed: man force-fed in Ice custody at risk due to 'substandard care' says doctor [View all]
Ajay Kumar, who is on a hunger strike while detained in El Paso, is receiving ‘abysmal’ treatment, doctor said in court documents
Amanda Holpuch in New York
The Guardian
Published: 02:00 Friday, 30 August 2019
The life of an Indian asylum seeker on hunger strike in US detention is at risk because of the “abysmal” treatment he is receiving from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), which began force-feeding him two weeks ago, a doctor warned in court documents filed this week.
Dr Parveen Parmar, chief of the division of global emergency medicine at the University of Southern California, said in an affidavit that the 33-year-old asylum seeker, Ajay Kumar, is receiving “the worst medical care I have seen in my 10 years of practice.”
Kumar is one of three Indian men on hunger strike in an El Paso, Texas immigration detention center who is currently being force-fed, an act medical bodies and human rights groups have argued it is a form of inhumane and degrading treatment.
The advocacy group Freedom for Immigrants has documented at least 1,396 people on hunger strike in 18 detention facilities since May 2015....In December and January, Ice force-fed at least six Indian men through plastic nasal tubes. Orders to allow force-feeding had been secured before, but there was no record of them being acted on until then. Four other detainees were also on hunger strike at the time in Miami, Phoenix, San Diego and San Francisco.
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