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The hunger-striking Indians demanding US asylum (El Paso)
« on: September 26, 2019, 02:40:12 am »
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The hunger-striking Indians demanding US asylum
Soutik Biswas India correspondent

Two Indian men are expected to be released soon from an immigration detention facility in El Paso, Texas, where they were on hunger strike for 74 days.

Ajay Kumar, 33, and Gurjant Singh, 24, have spent a year in detention facilities in the US after they were apprehended on its busy southern border.

It took them more than two months to travel by air, sea and land from northern India to the US-Mexico border where they turned themselves over to the border patrol.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49795527