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day limit: As of Wednesday, the federal government said, 15 detainees at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ont., were still refusing meals, according to The Waterloo Record. Dr. Among those demands are an immediate meeting with Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and a 90-day limit on such detentions. "Sometimes, it feels like we're being kidnapped and held against our own wills," Richard Chinedu Abuwa said over the phone from the Central East Correctional Centre, where he has been for more than two years. "Some of us sit here for months, years, and years upon end not knowing what our futures hold for us, and it just really sucks." Abuwa was one of more than 50 detainees who began refusing food — and in some cases liquids as well — 11 days ago. Michelle Fraser, one of 65 health-care professionals who wrote to Goodale last week urging he meet the detainees and end indefinite detentions, warned the hunger strikers could soon start suffering serious, potentially lethal health effects. "It is shameful that 50 immigration detainees must resort to a hunger strike to capture the attention of the Canadian government," Fraser said. "This hunger strike is a sign of the desperation." Since 2000, at least 15 people have died in Canadian immigration detention — three since the Liberal government came to office. The plan, Scott Bardsley said, would be released "in the near future." Bardsley also said detention was "always a last resort" and only allowed when someone identity is uncertain or a person poses a flight risk or danger to the public. The deaths should be more than enough of a spur to action, activists said. "Canada continues to be a rogue nation," said Matt Scott, an immigration consultant. "People are starving themselves for a simple demand of a meeting." A spokesman for Goodale said Thursday the minister has a plan that will "align" with the United Nation global strategy on the detention issue. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.