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https://x.com/koryodynasty/status/1967955432221315363

1/ Shocking new testimonies reveal systematic torture-like abuse at Georgia ICE facility on Korean workers: pregnant woman fearing for unborn child, handcuff burns, forced medical injections without consent, and staff neglecting workers having seizures and medical collapses.

2/ Yonhap News TV obtained exclusive photos showing a Korean worker's wrist from the Georgia detention facility. The images reveal clear red burn marks caused by handcuffs/cable ties. Worker testified that "quite a few people" suffered similar injuries.

3/ Testimonies also reveal forced medical procedures. One worker claims that during health checks before formal facility admission, despite refusing all tests, facility staff forcibly administered a tuberculosis injection against their will.

4/ "After receiving the jab, my skin swelled up and I was very anxious." Another said: "I remember a friend among us whose arm swelled up after getting injected. He said he didn't know what it was and got the shot. He said they stabbed him with a needle in upper left wrist area."

5/ Medical emergencies were allegedly ignored by facility staff. A worker collapsed due to worsening chronic sleep disorders, with symptoms deteriorating during detention, eventually leading to serious breathing difficulties. Staff apparently just watched, did nothing.

6/ Meanwhile, MBC revealed that a pregnant Korean engineer was among those detained in what she describes as torture-like conditions. She was working on computer tasks in the factory office when ICE agents forcibly took her away without explanation.

7/ The pregnant engineer held a legal B1 visa specifically for battery equipment installation work. She was scheduled to return to Korea this very week after completing her assigned work at the facility

8/ She was arrested on charges of illegal residence and held in the detention facility in a red prison uniform. She testified: "I appealed that my visa was still valid, but they didn't even pretend to listen."

9/ Detention conditions were horrific: over 30 people were crammed into a single room with just 3 sinks and 4 toilets in an open area. Privacy was non-existent, creating degrading conditions for female detainees "who were menstruating".

10/ When she informed guards she was pregnant, they only responded that she would be moved to "a room with slightly better conditions". She witnessed another female detainee having seizures and being neglected, fearing for her own unborn child should a medical emergency happen.

11/ "I really thought they were going to kill someone, and I was terrified," she said. "I was so shocked that I wasn't having morning sickness anymore and worried something had happened to my baby."

12/ Food was apparently completely inedible. "Even the bread smelled bad and sour," she said. "I couldn't eat it."

13/ Only after returning to South Korea and getting checked at a hospital could she finally breathe a sigh of relief when she learned that her baby was healthy. She says she has nightmares every night now, and "really wants to sue... in the country of lawsuits".

14/ South Korea's foreign ministry has announced it will investigate these abuse cases and will raise issues with the US if necessary. The mounting physical evidence and testimonies paint a picture of systematic human rights violations at the ICE facility.

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[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 105 points 5 months ago

Of course this is also happening at all ICE facilities, and US prisons, and CECOT, and black sites, and so on.

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 80 points 5 months ago

Yeah that’s an American detention facility for you. The dehumanization is intentional. The only thing worse than a cop is corrections officer. And even cops know that.

[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

A CO is a sadist who couldn’t become a cop due to illiteracy and will never forgive the prisoners for it

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

Yeah honestly that just sounds like every US prison. Glad it's getting attention, kind of a sad reality check that even a place that was a semi-fascist dictatorship until recent decades finds our normal conditions so appalling as to create an international incident.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

I've had a dark thought for a while now that all of these ice facilities are hiding bodies. I can see it so clearly, in two or three years somebody is going to do some excavation at a former ICE site and find a mass grave, and nobody will be held responsible.

[-] DexterRSX@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 5 months ago

Considering ICE is basically just a copy of the Catholic Handbook on how to Kill Indigenous Children but applied to all minorities, they probably have a built in cremation facility just to avoid that because burying things costs a lot of dough

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