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🚨 URGENT: HUNGER STRIKE ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
“Death before defilement.”
Ekong Eshiet (#304103), currently incarcerated at Westville Correctional Facility in Indiana, is beginning a hunger strike on June 9, 2025 to protest his wrongful and indefinite solitary confinement.
Ekong was transferred from Red Onion State Prison in Virginia, where he endured horrific abuse, racial and religious discrimination, and was denied mental health care. After surviving self-immolation, instead of receiving care, he was transferred across state lines as retaliation—and placed back in long-term solitary, without explanation.
He has now been held in “restricted housing” for over 33 days, despite being classified as seriously mentally ill—a direct violation of DOC policies.
📢 Ekong is risking his life to demand basic human rights.
✊🏿 Stand in solidarity. Share his story. Demand accountability.
đź“ž Contact Indiana DOC & Virginia DOC. Flood their lines. Write. Demand his release from solitary.
🎙️ Full statement on prisonradio.org