Gabar Choli
Coverage of Gabar Choli in the Nexus archive.
- ‘Shoved the tube so hard it tore my nose’: Kurdish film-maker recounts ‘inhumane’ ICE force-feeding
Kurdish film-maker Gabar Choli recounted months of being forcibly fed, shackled, and pinned by guards, an ordeal that left him physical and emotional scars. The incident occurred in June 2025 at the Port Isabel service processing center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in south Texas. This facility detains immigrants arrested during Donald Trump’s anti-immigration crackdown.
- Kurdish hunger striker says ICE force-feeding ‘mentally broke me’
Filmmaker Gabar Choli spoke out about enduring coercive treatment over eight months in US immigration detention while on a hunger strike. He was reportedly force fed by ICE after being detained when his asylum application was denied. Choli described the ordeal as having harmed him both physically and psychologically.