“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 to a point that I decided to write my body an apology letter.”
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