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Canada Border Services Agency and Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan

Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan: Canada Border Services Agency had refused to name 39-year-old Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan, but his family and immigration watchdog groups have publicly identified him, according to Metro News. The province special investigations unit, which has been probing the death because police were involved, said the man had become agitated and died after being restrained by police and medical personnel and A man who died last week under mysterious circumstances while detained by Canadian immigration authorities has been identified as a mentally ill Somali refugee who had spent three years in prison with little prospect for release. Hassan, who was also a diabetic, died in the early hours of June 11 in hospital in Peterborough, Ont., where he had been taken under police escort for unspecified treatment. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.