URGENT! Please read and share! Protest in support of prisoners on hunger strike! Tuesday Oct 8 @ 10:30am, meet NE corner Yonge and College From No One Is Illegal: 191 detainees on immigration hold in the maximum security prison in Lindsay have been on strike since Tuesday, September 17. These migrants are kept locked in cages for 18-22 hours a day, some of them for up to 7 years because Canada cannot deport them to home countries that will not take them back. In contravention of the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights, Canada refuses to release them. They are being punished for being arbitrarily deemed a flight risk, and for the crime of being born elsewhere. The strike began after the detainees were moved to Lindsay jail from prisons across Ontario where they face lockdowns, sub-standard food, limited access to telephones, and denial of family and legal visits. Despite this crackdown, many of them have been on hunger strike for 11 days now. At least six detainees have been hospitalized or received medical treatment, and at least one is on dry hunger strike. The detainees are now also collectively boycotting their detention review hearings, which have become a charade with no hope for release. This resistance is lifting the lid on what is arbitrary and indefinite detention. TAKE ACTION Sign the petition: https://change.org/en-CA/petitions/meet-the-demands-of-striking-immigrant-detainees
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:17:37 +0000
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