Gabar Choli, a 40-year-old Kurdish filmmaker and activist, has described being shackled, wrestled to the floor, and force-fed twice daily through a 60-centimeter nasal tube while held in a solitary confinement medical cell at the Port Isabel detention center in Texas. He said the daily procedure involved five staff members restraining him and inserting the tube, causing pain and internal bleeding during his hunger strike protesting detention conditions after his asylum application was denied. Choli said the ordeal led to a mental and physical collapse so severe that he wrote what he called an apology letter to his own body. A Guardian investigation found ICE obtained court orders for involuntary medical treatment for 18 hunger strikers between January 2025 and August 2026; Choli was later deported and now lives in Canada.