Detention: Detainees and Immigration

detention: Immigration detainees at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario began eating over the weekend, ending an 18-day hunger strike, according to Rabble. End Immigration Detention Network could not confirm if detainees at the Toronto East Detention Centre have continued the hunger strike. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Yesterday, approximately 30 people rallied outside the Lindsay facility to show their support for the detainees, who began refusing food on July 11 to demand an end to indefinite immigration detention and request a meeting with Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale. Over the past two weeks, solidarity protests were held in Regina, Peterborough, Toronto, Ottawa and Winnipeg. The minister refused to meet with the detainees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.