Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan and Mental Health Issues

End Immigration Detention Network: He had moved to Canada in 1993 with his family but never became a Canadian citizen, due in part to mental health issues, according to CTV. In 2012, he was convicted of assault and sentenced to four months behind bars. Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan died on June 11, after three years in the custody of the Canadian Border Services Agency. He was then transferred to CBSA custody and held in a maximum security prison in Ontario, where he remained for three years until his death. "We're here today to demand justice and honour for all the people that have been targeted, criminalized, brutalized and killed by the immigration systems," Tings Chak, a member of the End Immigration Detention Network, said at Monday protest. Roughly 30 per cent are being held in prisons instead of dedicated immigration holding centres. According to a recent study from the University of Toronto, more than 7,300 migrants were detained in 2013. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.