About 110 people, including Indians and Bangladeshis, held at three immigration detention centers in the US are on hunger strike demanding an end to their indefinite confinement and improved conditions. The strikes started on Wednesday at three immigration detention facilities — Etowah County Detention Center in Alabama, Theo lacey Facility in Orange County, California, and Otay Detention Facility in San Diego, according to Vice News.
Majority of the detainees are Bangladeshi. They also include detainees from India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Togo and elsewhere, it said.