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Cells: Canada

Canada: Hundreds held in Canadas immigration cells, Nov. 18, according to The Star. Canada has 585 people locked up without charge, 60 of them for over a year, two of these for more than five years. Although our cells are reputedly more sanitary and our interrogations more benign, from the other side of the looking glass, Canada looks increasingly like those countries we profess to despise and Re: Hundreds held in Canadas immigration cells, Nov. 18 Earlier this year, Egypt jailed Canadians John Greyson and Tarek Loubani for more than six weeks without charge. Our objections to their detention were largely dismissed by the Egyptian authorities as a matter for their own police and courts. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.