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Indian Detainees In U.S. End Hunger Strike
WASHINGTON: More than 40 immigrants from India at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas have ended their hunger strike after a week of protesting their detention while seeking political asylum.
Immigration and customs enforcement officials at El Paso Processing Centre in Texas confirmed that all the protestors were eating their food as of Wednesday afternoon, local El Paso Times reported.
Medical staff at the centre medically cleared all of the Indian immigrants who were fasting until the last day of the protest. None of them had to be hospitalised, the daily said citing officials.
But North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) officials in California said that at least one protestor was reportedly taken to a hospital outside the ICE processing centre.
On April 8, 43 men began refusing to eat their food. As the days went by, the number of fasters started dropping, the newspaper said.
NAPA officials said the hunger strike was to protest the Indian immigrants' "illegal" and "prolonged" detention at the centre.
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Source: IANS
