Media Contacts:
Tings Chak, 416-276-2174, End Immigration Detention Network
Media Advisories
July 21: As time runs out for federal immigration detainees in provincial custody, advocates urge Ontario to step in
July 15: No answers in mysterious death of immigration detainee increases calls for end to detentions
July 12: Goodale’s ‘Last Resort’ Detentions, Indefinite and Deadly
July 11: Immigration detainees refusing food to call for end to indefinite maximum-security detention
For background information, email migrantstrike@gmail.com
Media Coverage
- Huffington Post: Minister Goodale: Immigration Detainees are running out of time.
- Regina Post: Protestors follow Goodale to University of Regina
- Toronto Star: Province must stop housing federal immigration detainees: Cole
- CBC Ontario Today: Do immigration detainees belong behind bars?
- Peterborough Examiner: Coroner’s inquest called into immigration detainee Abdurahman Hassan’s death at Peterborough Regional Health Centre
- ForgettheBox: 50 CBSA Immigration Detainees on Hunger Strike in Ontario
- CBC: Immigration detainees on hunger strike demand meeting with Goodale
- Canadian Press (widely syndicated): Immigration detainees on hunger strike; want meeting with public safety minister
- VICE: Immigration Detainees Go on Hunger Strike to Highlight Canada’s Disturbing Detention Policy
- Globe & Mail Op-ed: Don’t detain, just let immigrants be in or out
- teleSUR: Canada: 60 Migrants Detained Indefinitely Launch Hunger Strike
- Rabble: Immigration detainees on hunger strike demand meeting public safety minister
- CTV: Protesters gather outside Ralph Goodale’s office
- Regina Leader-Post: Protesters unite to call on federal government to take action on issues