Detainees: Immigrant Detainees and Peterborough

detainees: The Peterborough Council of Canadians chapter supported a public letter sent this weekend to local MP Maryam Monsef by End Immigration Detention Peterborough in solidarity with immigrant detainees on hunger strikes at jails in Lindsay about 45 kilometres west of Peterborough and Toronto, according to Rabble. The letter to Minister Maryam Monsef asked her to declare a clear position on the controversial practice of indefinitely detaining migrants in Canada as well as that she meet with the hunger-striking detainees within the next 45 days. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. This action follows on the tail of a rally the Peterborough chapter participated in on July 18th outside of the MP constituency office in solidarity with immigrant detainees on the seventh day of their hunger strike. One of the key strike organizers is being deported today, Monday July 25 after 26 months in prison. The End Immigration Detention Network shared the following updates today, as the detainees enter the third week of the hunger strike: "Disturbingly, we are seeing the prison authorities, likely under CBSA instructions, doing everything in their power to break the strike. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.