Tarek Loubani: John Greyson

John Greyson: Tarek and I have huge questions about whats going on in our own backyards, Greyson said at a Toronto news conference Monday in front of the federal courthouse on Queen St. W. We re critical of our own experience in Egypt, but to see this in our own backyard is unacceptable. The indefinite detention of all 191 detainees in Lindsay, Ont. raises a lot of questions about what we re doing as a nation, according to The Star. Loubani, a London, Ont., emergency physician, and Greyson, a Toronto filmmaker and professor, want the Canadian government to abide by international law and limit immigration detention to 90 days. If immigration detainees arent deported by then, the two say, they should be released as is the case in the United States or the United Kingdom and A little more than three weeks since they returned to Canada, Tarek Loubani and John Greyson who spent seven weeks in an Egyptian prison without being charged are demanding an end to what they describe as unjust indefinite detention of immigration detainees in Canada. Close to 200 immigrant detainees, some of whom have been in detention for as long as seven years because Canada cannot remove them nor will they release them held a protest and hunger strike to draw attention to their indefinite detention at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay earlier this fall. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.