Asylum seeker says he choked on his own blood while being force-fed by ICE over the course of eight months while detained: ‘It mentally broke me’

Asylum seeker says he choked on his own blood while being force-fed by ICE over the course of eight months while detained: ‘It mentally broke me’

A Kurdish asylum seeker who spent eight months on hunger strike in U.S. immigration detention says repeated force-feeding by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) left him injured, traumatized and psychologically devastated. Gabar Choli, a filmmaker and activist who was deported to Canada in January, says guards restrained him while medical staff repeatedly forced a feeding tube through his nose and into his stomach, sometimes twice a day. H…