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REUNITE - Families for Families in Detention Rally

February 16, 2015

High school aged youth from Peterborough and Toronto are changing the way they celebrate Family Day (February 16th) this year, rallying outside a maximum security prison in Lindsay, Ontario. The group, members of Youth 4 Global Change & End Immigration Detention Network Youth Committee hope to raise awareness of family separation and endless jailing of immigrants including children without charges or trial. Siblings, parents, friends and grandparents of the youth group, as well as family members of many of the men imprisoned by immigration enforcement will be raising signs and making music outside the prison walls.

The detainees and their supporters are calling for an end to maximum security detention in provincial jails for migrants; a limit of 90 days that migrants can be held in detention pending deportation as per international best practices and; overhaul of the detention review process. Immigration detainees have been organizing protest actions since September 2013.

WHERE: Central East Correctional Centre, Lindsay, ON (gather at Christie Pits Park, Toronto, 2 pm)

Time: 4:15 pm (Media briefings in Toronto at 2pm)
Venue: Central East Correctional Centre
Location: Lindsay, ON
Website: http://www.endimmigrationdetention.com
Categories: Human Rights, Law, Legal

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