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Alabama: Health of Detained Asylum Seekers on Hunger Strike Worsens

HeadlineDec 08, 2015

In the United States, seven detained asylum seekers on hunger strike have been sent to the medical unit at the Etowah County Detention Center as their strike stretches into its 12th day. They are demanding their freedom. Other hunger strikers report being subject to sleep deprivation and threatened with force-feeding or deportation. Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley have expressed support for the more than 100 asylum seekers on hunger strike across the United States.

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