Josh Paterson and Lucia Vega Jimenez

Lucia Vega Jimenez: Three human rights organizations say there is still no independent body overseeing actions, one of the key recommendations from a coroner inquest into the death of Lucia Vega Jimenez, according to CTV. Josh Paterson, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, said it has been eight years since the Maher Arar inquiry looking into why the Syrian-born Canadian was sent to Syria to be tortured. That investigation also recommended independent accountability of the he said and - More than a year after a Mexican woman hanged herself in a B.C. immigration detention centre, advocacy groups say the Canada Border Services Agency still lacks crucial oversight to prevent such deaths. She died in hospital in December 2013, days after being found hanging by security guards inside a shower stall in the holding facility below the Vancouver International Airport. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.