San Francisco, July 26 (RHC)-- In the U.S., a group of asylum seekers has sued ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), accusing guards of violently repressing a peaceful hunger strike inside Adelanto Detention Facility in California last year, which the asylum seekers had launched to protest the lack of clean drinking water, and the spoiled food and unsanitary clothes provided inside the facility.
The Honduran and Salvadoran asylum seekers say the guards attacked them and placed them in isolation for organizing the hunger strike.
The Adelanto Detention Facility in California is operated by the for-profit company GEO Group.
