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2, 2014</span><br>
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style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 19px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;">Retaliation
and Civil Rights Violations Pile Up at the NWDC in Tacoma. </span></p>
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style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: italic; font-size: 19px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;">Remaining
original hunger striker breaks fast and placed in retaliatory solitary
confinement. Former isolated hunger striker “convicted” in a Kafkaesque
hearing; the twenty men placed in solitary confinement for hunger
strike grows. Despite retaliation, peaceful protest continues.</span></p>
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style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;">Tacoma,
WA – Jesus Gaspar Navarro ended his 25-day hunger strike Tuesday
morning with a full breakfast. An hour later, after speaking on air on
Spanish language 1360 am about the strike, he was removed from medical
isolation to solitary confinement. His administrative segregation
order cited risk to self and the facility and participation in the
hunger strike as reasons for his isolation. The conditions of isolation
are not healthy for someone recovering from a nearly month-long fast.</span></p>
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</span><span
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Mendoza Pascual, who was held in medical isolation for two weeks, had a
hearing on charges stemming from the fast.</span><span
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In the hearing the same ICE officer acted as translator, witness
against him and adjudicator.</span><span
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He was convicted of inciting a group demonstration. </span><span
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Mendoza Pascual was sentenced to 20 days in solitary confinement. The
conditions include near total deprivation: 23 hour a day lockdown with
no human contact (one hour a day of solitary time in the prison yard),
no use of telephone, no access to commissary account items, and no
access to television or written materials. </span></p>
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Gaspar Navarro and Mr. Mendoza Pascual joined dozens of other hunger
strikers who are in isolation in retaliation for the hunger strike,
what detainees call “the hole.” But they work to keep their spirits up.
</span><span
style="vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 15px; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; font-family: Georgia; font-weight: normal;">Ramon
Mendoza Pascual observed while encouraging those on hunger strike,
“They don’t have enough holes for all of us.” </span></p>
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vet Hassall Moses remains in isolation for advocating a work stoppage
for work that is compensated at $1 per day and that ICE and GEO allege
is voluntary. </span></p>
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Increasingly experts are coming forward with evidence that isolation is
torture. In a recent </span><span
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Yorker Magazine</span><span
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article public health researcher Dr. Atule Gawande summed up all the
research: “simply to exist as a normal human being requires interaction
with other people.”</span></p>
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A 16-year resident of the US, Mr. </span><span
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Navarro is sorely missing his large family, all U.S. citizens - a wife,
five children, and two grandchildren born since he was detained.
Ramon Mendoza Pascual and his wife of 13 years, Veronica, have three
children, ages 12, 10, and 5. Ramon first came to the United States 11
years ago, in 2002, and works as a carpenter, finishing homes and
hospitals. Before being detained, Ramon was a significant source of
support to his family, and his wife now works three jobs seven days a
week to make ends meet.</span></p>
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on behalf of Hunger Strikers and latest releases available at: </span><a
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style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">www.notonemoredeportation.com/2014/03/10/detention-hunger-strike/</span></a></p>
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to support the families of human rights hunger strikers:</span><a
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5 Not1More Deportation Rally in support of the NWDC Human Rights
Leaders - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.facebook.com/Not1MoreTacoma/posts/241708986031832"
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