Jakarta – Some asylum seekers in an Indonesian detention center are on a hunger strike, saying immigration officials use stun guns and threaten to kill them.

Detainees allege the Tanjung Pinang facility houses 40 to 50 people in each cell and they say they aren't eating until the human rights abuses, including the use of stun guns, stop, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday.

"If I ask to see doctor or UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) they say they will use this," the detainee said. "They threaten us they come to the door and show us the weapons and say 'we will kill you, we will kill you.'"

Atiqullah Mairi, an Afghan asylum seeker recently in Tanjung Pinang, says he experienced the device first-hand. "More than 15 times they gave me an electronic shock," he said. "It was like a gun, a small gun with an electronic shock."

The immigration detention center on Bintan Island southeast of Singapore, was refurbished as part of an $8 million project funded by the Australian government, the ABC said, but the Indonesian government is responsible for its operation.

Sen. Sarah Hanson-Young has been pushing the government to release information about the agreement Australia has with Indonesia over its detention centers.

"The government has failed to even confirm if those sort of human rights standards are part of any agreements," she said.

"They refuse to put the agreement on the public record I've asked for it numerous times it makes you wonder if a) an agreement exists and b) what the content of that agreement really is."