hunger strike

Behind the walls of California City Detention Facility, more than a hundred men staged hunger strikes during several days this month and refused to go back to their cells, protesting poor conditions.

"He continued with the hunger strike and misleading the people through provocative mention of Arab Spring-style protest and references to Gen-Z protests in Nepal."

It held paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles and was the scene of republican hunger strikes in 1981 when 10 inmates starved themselves to death.

Some tore down the tarpaulin sheets covering the spot and threatened an indefinite hunger strike.

To protest the conditions, detainees have launched a hunger strike, which likely continues, despite the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts to deny and suppress information about it.