As Chicago Father Enters Week 3 Of Hunger Strike In Texas ICE Facility, His Family Faces Eviction

ROGERS PARK – When Amaliia Gilmutdinova, her husband, Shokhrukh Abdullaev, and their then-4-year-old daughter, Avrova, arrived in the United States in 2021, they were searching for freedom. Gilmutdinova feared Russian authorities in her home country would arrive at her place, seize her computer and phones, and detain her. She was an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, and some of her friends had been persecuted, she said through an interpreter. But Gilmutdinova s dreams shattered after immigration authorities arrested her husband about a year ago, holding him in immigration detention center in Texas. As of Monday, he was on the 16th day of a hunger strike, calling for authorities to transfer him to a detention center closer to his family and outside Texas, where immigrants have a chance to bring their cases to court and ask a judge to release them on bond. Meanwhile, Gilmutdinova and her daughter risk being evicted from their Rogers Park apartment as they worry a