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Macdonald Scott and Liberal Party

Francisco Javier Romero Astorga: Dozens of activists from local civil society and immigration rights groups are expected to go to the Liberal Party headquarters in Toronto Friday, voicing their concerns and standing in solidarity with families affected by the situation, according to Metro News. We don’t want people to be held in maximum security any longer, said Macdonald Scott, spokesperson for End Immigration Detention Network, one of the leading groups. In wake of recent deaths of two inmates at the Lindsay, Ont. detention centre, calls are mounting to end indefinite imprisonment of immigration detainees and to overhaul the judicial process for those waiting to be deported. The coalition was particularly alarmed by the death of Francisco Javier Romero Astorga, a Chilean man who died in custody on March 13. We want to know why our son, our brother died, reads part of a letter Astorga family sent to the Canadian government. His death came days after another inmate, 64-year-old Burundian Melkioro Gahungu, committed suicide. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.