Hunger Strikes at Immigrant Detention Centers in Ontario

Central East Correctional Centre, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
Toronto East Detention Centre,  Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
July 11 – July 29, 2016
October 17, 2016 – November 2, 2016

A group of immigrant detainees in two facilities in Ontario participate in a coordinated hunger strike in protest of their placement in maximum security prisons and a variety of other grievances. The outside group End Immigration Detention Network holds solidarity demonstrations and supports the strikes.

Demonstration in Peterborough, Ontario by End Immigration Detention Peterborough (Source: End Immigrant Detention Network).

Banner Drop at Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario (Source: End Immigrant Detention Network).

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