‘Shoved the tube so hard it tore my nose’: Kurdish film-maker recounts ‘inhumane’ ICE force-feeding
Kurdish film-maker Gabar Choli pictured in London, Ontario. Photograph: Cole Burston/The GuardianView image in fullscreenKurdish film-maker Gabar Choli pictured in London, Ontario. There, the guards pinned Choli on a bed while medical staff forcibly inserted a feeding tube through his nose and down his throat, and pumped nutritional liquid into his stomach.
- ▪Kurdish film-maker Gabar Choli pictured in London, Ontario.
- ▪Photograph: Cole Burston/The GuardianView image in fullscreenKurdish film-maker Gabar Choli pictured in London, Ontario.
- ▪There, the guards pinned Choli on a bed while medical staff forcibly inserted a feeding tube through his nose and down his throat, and pumped nutritional liquid into his stomach.
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Kurdish film-maker Gabar Choli pictured in London, Ontario. Photograph: Cole Burston/The GuardianView image in fullscreenKurdish film-maker Gabar Choli pictured in London, Ontario. Photograph: Cole Burston/The GuardianForce-fed by ICEUS news‘Shoved the tube so hard it tore my nose’: Kurdish film-maker recounts ‘inhumane’ ICE force-feedingGabar Choli tells of how, for months, he was shackled, pinned and forcibly fed – and the physical and emotional scars the ordeal has leftJosé OlivaresMon 10 Aug 2026 06.00 EDTLast modified on Mon 10 Aug 2026 06.02 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleIn June 2025, a sluggish and thin Gabar Choli, with sunken temples and bones visible under his skin, braced himself for the immigration detention center guards to charge into his cell once again.Choli was in…
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