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>The return of displaced Syrian Kurds to their northeastern hometown of Ras al-Ain was suspended on Monday after a first group of returnees was attacked, prompting protests in other Kurdish-majority parts of Syria.

Hello, I'm a kurd and im really interested about knowing what do you guys think about us in general since there are quite a number of us immigrating to the uk, and i apologise if any of you have faced any issues from them just keep in mind that just because one is bad doesn't mean all is, thank you for answering 💕🌹

Homeland security officials under the Trump administration have quietly attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in US immigrant detention to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding, a Guardian investigation has found.

In 2025 and 2026, officials had definitely performed the procedures on at least three detained immigrants and probably subjected two more to the forced treatment – widely considered torture by human rights groups. The other five people gave in and broke their hunger strike at the last minute as force-feeding procedures loomed.

The government has not publicly acknowledged the practice of involuntary medical procedures on striking detainees, as the number of people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) increases nationwide.

More people have gone on hunger strike in ICE detention centers to protest against conditions and demand resolutions to legal cases.

The investigation, based on hundreds of pages of court records and interviews with multiple sources, reveals a clearer picture of the federal government’s response to hunger strikes within secretive ICE facilities.

In the cases reviewed by the Guardian, the involuntary procedures included force-feeding, where medical staff coercively insert a tube through a hunger striker’s nose and down their throat then pump in nutritional shakes – an agonizing and traumatizing procedure that experts say can cause significant harm to the nose, esophagus and body organs. Other procedures included intravenous forced hydration, involuntary blood draws and the collection of urine samples.

In all cases, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, requested necessary permission from courts for detention center guards to physically restrain hunger strikers.

The Guardian’s investigation found:

One Kurdish asylum seeker and hunger striker detained at the privately run Port Isabel service processing center in Los Fresnos, south Texas, was subjected to force-feeding for nearly eight months, according to a series of filings in the southern district of Texas federal court, beginning in May 2025 and ending only when he was deported.

Another hunger striker at the same facility was subjected to involuntary medical procedures, including force-feeding, for nearly six months between September 2025 and March 2026, filings in the same court show.

Someone detained at the Krome service processing center in Miami, a privately run ICE jail, was subjected to forced medical procedures for nearly three months, filings in the southern district of Florida federal court show. DHS seemingly began the forced practices three days before Trump’s 2025 inauguration for a second term, then continued.

Two other hunger strikers, one at the Northwest ICE processing center in Washington state and another inside the Montgomery processing center on the outskirts of Houston, Texas, were probably subjected to forced medical procedures, according to filings in the western district of Washington and in the southern district of Texas federal courts.

In at least five cases, hunger strikers detained in Texas, Arizona and Florida, ended their hunger strike right before officials began with the forced medical procedures, filings in the southern district of Texas, district of Arizona and southern district of Florida federal courts show.

The forced procedures were performed inside the detention centers.

In six cases reviewed by the Guardian, detained immigrants did not have any legal representation during the court proceedings granting the involuntary medical procedures.

The DHS and ICE have conducted these procedures throughout the years, regardless of which presidential administration is in power. In 2024, under Joe Biden, the Guardian found that the DHS attempted to subject at least 10 hunger strikers in ICE detention to forced medical treatment. It definitely proceeded with at least two people, and probably subjected at least four more people to them. However, since the return of Trump to the White House and the dramatic increase in immigration arrests and detention, medical experts and advocates worry more hunger strikes will occur and strikers will be subjected to the practices.

“The Trump administration’s choice to seek court orders to force-feed people in ICE detention who have engaged in hunger strikes is another stark example of the brutality it has unleashed against immigrants,” said Eunice Cho, an immigrant rights attorney who has extensively documented cases of forced treatment on hunger strikers in ICE detention.

The DHS and ICE did not provide comment or a response to questions from the Guardian.

The US attorney’s office for the western district of Washington confirmed to the Guardian that there was one ICE forced medical procedure case in its jurisdiction since 1 January 2025. It was for a Canadian man whose procedures probably began on 8 January in the closing days of the Biden administration and ended just two days after Trump’s inauguration on 20 January.

“The US attorney’s office represents ICE in these cases,” a western district of Washington spokesperson said in response to a request from the Guardian. “As our filings demonstrate, we work closely with the court to ensure the judge has relevant and up to date information on the health status of the detainee.

“Ultimately, it is a federal district court judge who determines what steps should be taken to protect the life and health of the detainee,” the spokesperson added.

Geo Group, the private prison company that runs guard operations in two facilities where people were probably subjected to the procedures in January and April of 2025, referred all questions to ICE, which did not respond.

Last week, in part one of an exclusive series Force-fed by ICE, the Guardian reported on an ICE document that confirmed one person had been subjected to an involuntary medical procedure in late 2025. The document also showed that the agency forecast spending $168,928.01 in fiscal year 2026 to deal with hunger strikes, including for equipment and medical supplies.

The full scope of forced medical procedures on ICE detainees is unclear but this report, part two of the series, shows that evidence has since emerged of more court orders and more people being force-fed or brought to the brink of that and other procedures. Part of the obscurity is due to the quick legal procedures and secretive nature of the process.

If a hunger striking detainee refuses to eat, after a certain amount of time, which can vary, the DHS, ICE and federal prosecutors submit an emergency request to a federal judge. The judge will often quickly grant a court order allowing federal officials to begin the forced procedures, deciding before the detained immigrant can object in court.

Detained immigrants are not guaranteed legal representation during this process, leaving many, including those with limited English proficiency and unfamiliarity of the US legal system, to challenge the DHS’s attempts by themselves. During this process, they are often locked away in solitary confinement, Cho said.

By the time the DHS requests an order for the forced procedures, hunger strikers may already be weak, exhausted and facing medical problems and significant weight loss due to a lack of nutrients, court filings show. Court records are sealed in many cases.

“The hidden nature of these proceedings simply creates more opportunities for abuse and coercion,” Cho added.

Forcing medical procedures on detained hunger strikers is seen as torture by many human rights groups and medical organizations.

According to medical ethicist Dr Matthew Wynia, the director of the center for bioethics and humanities at the University of Colorado, medical staff follow a code of ethics that respects patients’ bodily autonomy. For example, if someone in a hospital is of sound mind and rejects medical treatment, healthcare staff can advise patients to accept treatment but cannot ethically force procedures without consent.

“It is unethical to force treatment on someone who is saying, ‘don’t do this to me’,” said Wynia. “People who are on hunger strike do not want to die, they are not suicidal. They are using the only tool available to them to protest the circumstances of their confinement.”

ICE deportation officers and doctors also make court declarations. ICE officers argue that the procedures are necessary to prevent the hunger striking detainees from starving to death or suffering other medical problems under their watch. Filings show officials are also concerned about the public perception of the DHS and that its staff would be “adversely affected” by allowing a hunger striker to die from voluntary starvation.

In documents reviewed by the Guardian, DHS officials also justified forced medical procedures to maintain “good order” in detention centers.

One ICE officer wrote that if they did not take place it could “lead to lowered morale, resentment, acts of detainee violence and disruptions” inside, adding: “If such disruptive acts were to occur, tensions between detained aliens and staff would be heightened, making almost all aspects of the detention operation more difficult for staff to perform.”

Doctors working for ICE detailed in filings the detainees’ medical history and advocated for forcible procedures.

“The idea of health professionals serving as agents of the state, rather than protectors of our patients, has a notorious history. And for the medical profession, we really don’t want to go down that path again,” Wynia added.

i know this might be a big subject to talk about in terms of thousands of kurdish history but i just want a clear idea that throughout history as far as i have read they have been brave people freedom fighters and they never really got their independence and now that their “state” is torn apart by multiple countries and i can’t help but notice that the communist kurdish parties made this happen that it was divided like this and it never became one again (till now) and i know that they weren’t the people who divided the kurds it was the british and french but after all those years and revolutions all they wanted was a peaceful iraq,turkey,syria,iran

"And the curse of Allah is on the wrongdoers" (Quran 7:44).

Wrongdoers in the topic we'll be talking about are the oppressors of the kurds, oppression is wrong doing and allah curses those who are wrongdoers ( this means that those who oppress kurds have already been cursed by allah for wrongdoing and will eventually fall apart )

· Hadith (Sahih Muslim): "Keep away from injustice, for injustice near God is darkness on the Day of Judgement". Injustice is oppressing the freedom and religious/human rights of a group like kurds and on the oppression they do is injustice which is darkness to god in the day of judgement meaning those that oppress kurds will pay a heavy prise for their darkness

· Hadith (Sahih Muslim): Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said: "A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim—he does not wrong him nor does he forsake him...". This hadith is a direct statement from the prophet saying you do not do your brother wrong, and by oppressing kurds they have already broken what the prophet had ordered upon us

· "For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease" (Quran 94:5-6). This is repeated twice to show the certainty of relief after hardship, kurds being oppressed and stripped away from their rights is hardship and relief is having a country meaning allah had promised kurds an independent kurdistan

· "Allah does not burden a soul beyond that it can bear" (Quran 2:286). The fact we kurds are oppressed is proof that our souls are stronger than the others

· Hadith (Abu Dawood): "If anyone constantly seeks pardon (from Allah), Allah will appoint for him a way out of every distress and a relief from every anxiety...". Distress and anxiety for kurds is not having a country, being oppressed, not being acknowledged as kurds, not being given their human rights and so on, by this if they keep seeing pardon from allah they will gain relief by what's going to relieved them ( that being a country and independence )

The prophet muhammad ( PBUH ) has said

1· "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself." (Bukhari, Muslim)

2· "A Muslim is the brother of a Muslim. He does not oppress him, nor abandon him, nor hand him over to an oppressor." (Bukhari, Muslim)

3· "Whoever among you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand. If he cannot, then with his tongue. If he cannot, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith." (Sahih Muslim)

4. "No adulterer is a believer at the time he is committing adultery, no thief is a believer at the time he is stealing; no drinker of wine is a believer at the time he is drinking it."

5. "Seeking knowledge is obligatory upon every Muslim"

For the first hadith:

This exact saying appears in multiple primary collections with slight variations in wording, all carrying the same meaning

Sahih al-Bukhari: Hadith 13 (Volume 1, Book 2, Hadith 6)

Sahih Muslim: Hadith 45 (Book 1, Hadith 72)

An-Nawawi's Forty Hadiths: Hadith 13

And according to him the ummah is an Islamic brotherhood and he also says this: "*A Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, so he should not oppress him, nor should he hand him over to an oppressor. Whoever fulfilled the needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his needs...*" Sahih al-Bukhari 2442 | Sahih Muslim 2580

The Narrator: Abdullah ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him)

So we're all brothers and our faith is not complete until we love for our Muslim brothers what we love for ourselves, this goes specially for the political leaders that oppose the existence of a kurdistan, you could argue that those in power are greedy and not justiful towards everyone but what about your normal muslim,why does he oppose a country called kurdistan even though if he doesn't support he's not a true believer

For the second hadith:

The people that oppress the kurds, such as the political leaders and government of syria, iraq, iran and turkey. By hadiths and demand from the prophet, they're not allowed to oppress the kurds or let someone else oppress them as they're classified as brothers and must protect each other from oppression

This hadith, narrated by Abdullah ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), appears in multiple major collections with consistent wording:

Collection Reference Full Text

Sahih al-Bukhari Book 46 (Oppressions), Hadith 3 (also 2442) "A Muslim is a brother of another Muslim, so he should not oppress him, nor should he hand him over to an oppressor. Whoever fulfilled the needs of his brother, Allah will fulfill his needs; whoever brought his (Muslim) brother out of discomfort, Allah will bring him out of the discomforts of the Day of Resurrection, and whoever screened a Muslim, Allah will screen him on the Day of Resurrection."

Sahih Muslim Book 45 (The Book of Virtue, Good Manners and Joining of the Ties of Relationship), Hadith 2580 (same text)

Sahih al-Bukhari Volume 3, Book 43, Hadith 622 (same text)

For the third Hadith:

People see how kurds are being oppressed and what happens to the kurds is indeed evil, evil things like oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, banning the kurdish language, treating them differently for being kurds and ect

Majority of people especially those that live in iraq, iran, syria and turkey are aware of this evil and they must act against it by stoping the evil with his hands ( this would specifically refer to the politicians ) but if he can't the with his tongue ( this refers to the normal citizen with no political power ) and if he is forcefully shut then in his heart he needs to support the kurdish cause and their desire for freedom and independence *HOWEVER* if you're capable of one of the first two things, youvmist do them, changing your heart is a last resort where you can't raise your voice or directly help them

This hadith, narrated by Abu Sa'eed al-Khudri, appears in at least three major primary collections:

Sahih Muslim Book 1 (Faith), Hadith 79 "Whoever among you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; if he cannot, then with his tongue; if he cannot, then with his heart — and that is the weakest of faith."

Sunan an-Nasa'i Book 47 (The Book of Faith and its Signs), Hadith 5008 (same text)

40 Hadith of an-Nawawi Hadith 34 (same text)

this hadith (narrated again by Abdullah ibn Umar) proves that you need to oppose the government that opposes kurds, and the hadith goes like: "Each of you is a shepherd and each of you is responsible for his flock. The ruler who is over the people is a shepherd and is responsible for his flock; a man is a shepherd in charge of his household and he is responsible for his flock; a woman is a shepherdess in charge of her husband's house and children and she is responsible for them..."

Sahih al-Bukhari Volume 3, Book 46, Hadith 730

Sunan Abi Dawud Book 20 (Tribute, Spoils, Rulership), Hadith 2928

Al-Adab Al-Mufrad (Imam Bukhari) Hadith 212 & 214

For the fourht hadith:

It is obvious that the countries which occupy kurdistan have stolen the land and that is theft, the hadith says when the thief is committing theft, **at the moment he is doing the action of theft he is not a believer** now since they stole it they're not believers but not only at the time when they stole it, those countries are committing active theft which means the action of theft is still ongoing, by taking the land, they have stolen and by using the resources of the land they stole, it is active theft

Now since it's clear that the government of turkey, iraq, syria and iran are oppressing kurds and are committing active theft which classifies them as none believers and according to the second hadith, if you vote for those government and politicians who support that government, you're handing the kurds ( your muslim brothers ) to the oppressor who are committing active theft meaning you too have hand in active theft, meaning you're a none believer

Collection Specific Reference (Book & Hadith) Narrator Key Wording & Notes

Sahih al-Bukhari Book 46, Hadith 36 (2475) Abu Huraira "When an adulterer commits illegal sexual intercourse... when a thief steals... when a drinker drinks... when a robber robs..."

Sahih al-Bukhari Book 74, Hadith 4 (5578) Abu Huraira "...not a believer at the time of stealing/drinking/adultery." Includes addition about the robber.

Sahih Muslim Book 1, Hadith 109 (57a) Abu Huraira "...not a believer while committing..." Includes addition: "No plunderer... is a believer."

Sahih Muslim Book 1, Hadith 104 (Chapter 24) Abu Huraira Includes the crucial addition: "...but repentance may be accepted afterwards."

By those hadith the politicians need to help kurds gain independence and the people need to protest so that their government does give the kurds independence

For the fifth Hadith:

if a muslim doesn't know about the kurdish struggle they're not entitled to the opinion of kurds not deserving a country because they're ignorant of it and the prophet had made it obligated to seek knowledge, the kurdish struggle and desire for separation and achieving independence is indeed knowledge because if you look into it you'd understand why things are the way they're today, not knowing why kurds want independence and choosing to stay ignorant about it isn't ok and you're adviced by the prophet to not be like that

Source: Sunan Ibn Majah, Hadith 224

Narrator: Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him)

Now I am not declaring takfir (excommunication) on any specific person — that judgment belongs to Allah alone. But the Prophet's words are clear