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ICE Wants to Force-Feed a Russian Detainee on Hunger Strike

PROTESTING THE PROTEST

The Russian migrant detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego has been on hunger strike for more than two weeks.

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Immigration officials want to force-feed a Russian detainee who has been on a hunger strike for two weeks and is rejecting medical attention.

Evgenii Ivanov, 41, has refused 51 meals while locked up at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in California and has lost at least 27 pounds, according to a...

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