The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for August 11, 2026. We recorded 1 event from August 10, 2026 that erode our democratic ideals and added 12 more from earlier dates — 188 so far this month, bringing the total archive to 1582. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

Guardian investigation reveals ICE force-fed Kurdish asylum seeker Gabar Choli for eight months at Texas detention center

Event: August 10, 2026 Location: Los Fresnos, Texas Jurisdiction: Federal Abuses: Violence in immigration enforcement, Corrections abuse

The Guardian reported August 10, 2026 that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement force-fed Gabar Choli, a 40-year-old Kurdish asylum seeker and filmmaker, through a nasal tube roughly twice a day for about eight months at the Port Isabel detention center in Los Fresnos, Texas, after he began a hunger strike protesting detention conditions. Federal court records reviewed by the Guardian show ICE and DHS obtained and repeatedly renewed a federal court order authorizing the force-feeding over Choli's objection and without legal representation, before he was deported to Canada in January 2026. Choli said the treatment left him with lasting physical injuries and psychological harm; DHS said involuntary medical treatment is used only to prevent imminent life-threatening harm.

People & Organizations: - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Read the full entry: https://standingrecord.com/entries/2026/08/10/federal-violence-in-immigration-enforcement-e12f2872/ Primary source: Kurdish hunger striker says ICE force-feeding 'mentally broke me'

Filling out the archive

We're steadily backfilling the archive — working backward through the record so the timeline is complete, not just current. These are older events we archived yesterday. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• February 17, 2025 — DOGE fired 89 FDA Human Foods Program staff overseeing food and chemical safety; deputy commissioner resigned in protest
• April 3, 2025 — FDA suspended a program improving bird-flu testing reliability across 40+ labs, citing its own staff cuts
• April 17, 2025 — FDA halted FERN's Proficiency Testing Program, cutting pathogen-screening quality checks for 170 labs, citing staff cuts
• July 1, 2025 — CDC narrowed mandatory FoodNet pathogen surveillance from eight diseases to two as it dissolved its parasitic-disease division
• August 7, 2025 — IRS disclosed 47,000 taxpayers' addresses to ICE under an April 2025 data-sharing deal, later found unlawful in 42,695 cases
• October 31, 2025 — ICE officer Israel Hernandez threatened to shoot Portland teenager during 911 call
• December 5, 2025 — University of Arkansas dean removed tenured Middle East studies director over Israel posts, later fired her
• January 21, 2026 — Michigan Department of Civil Rights shelved $1.1M tribal boarding-school report and omitted its apology recommendation
• January 28, 2026 — NPR investigation reveals DOE secretly rewrote nuclear reactor safety rules, kept them hidden until forced release
• February 1, 2026 — UT Austin's presidential committee denied tenure to border-surveillance scholar Iván Chaar López despite unanimous faculty approval
• August 7, 2026 — DOJ Civil Rights Division found Duke Law School discriminated based on race in admissions
• August 9, 2026 — Washington Post investigation found Education Dept. froze civil rights probes into school racial, sexual harassment for 18 months

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