Around 500 people at Georgia's Folkston ICE detention center are on hunger strike, protesting health and safety conditions, and prolonged detention at the facility. Among them is Eslam Mohammad Ahmad Ananzeh, who is from Jordan and had been seeking asylum while working 12-hour restaurant shifts to help his family. Eslam, now in solitary, had also been planning his wedding when he was detained last December.

Eslam's fiancée told 285 South that he has not been eating or drinking water for the past ten days. When she spoke to him on Tuesday, Eslam told her he was dizzy. “The water is sometimes yellow... He tells me that the food is nasty. It looks spoiled, like very gooey looking.”

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