10/14/2026
ICE is torturing the 500+ people on hunger and labor strike since Oct 6 at the Folkston concentration camp in Georgia.
Over a week without food, all while enduring torture.
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According to Shut Down FIPC, the strikers' demands include:
-Immediate release
-Due process
-Stop abusive treatment
These asylum seekers, some of whom have been trapped inside for over two years, have been denied due process and are not criminals.
They have a right to protection from prosecution abroad that is enshrined in US law).
Their rights to dignity, protection from cruel and unusual punishment, and due process are all being violated.
ICE is retaliating through:
- Sleep deprivation (a form of torture under international law)
- Unlawful solitary confinement, lasting at least 2 months for at least 30 strikers (solitary for over 15 days is a form of torture under international law). The solitary unit is now completely full. At least three people have fallen unconscious while in solitary.
Conditions inside also include:
Abusive treatment. Humiliation. Shouting. Threats. Deprival of basic human needs. Sending people to the unit for people with criminal records, hampering their chances in court, without cause.
Medical neglect (One asylum seeker was told, "I have no obligation to treat you; the only thing that matters to me is that you don't drop dead.") No emergency buttons. No dentist -- people have merely been put on painkillers for YEARS instead of treatment.
Leaking ceilings. Mold, including on mattresses. Constant darkness. No sunlight.
People have been told to drink toilet water.
Each week, they only get ONE shower and ONE hour of fresh air.
Food lacks nutrition and is spoiled. People are denied medically necessary special diets.
Air conditioning is left on full blast or not at all, leaving people freezing or struggling to breathe.
Spouses held at separate camps are not allowed to communicate.
Commissary items are stolen for no reason.
One of the leaders was deported without due process in an act of retaliation.
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