The UN has spoken. Its time to End Immigration Detention. please visit and share: endimmigrationdetention/2014/07/24/untocanada/ Overstaying past your immigration permit should not be grounds for incarceration. Jailing someone simply for wishing to live and work in a country not of their birth is not justice. Indefinite detention with no hope of release on top of that is cruel, inhumane and appalling. Many people agree: Over a 100 detainees have been on strike for nearly a year, thousands of people have signed our petition, dozens of organizations have endorsed our demands, and our report on detention reviews has exposed signs of government interference in immigration detention decision making. Now, the UN has spoken out in support. The tide on immigration detention is turning. Let’s turn up the volume. Can you contact your MP about this urgent issue? Fill out the form at endimmigrationdetention/2014/07/24/untocanada/ and we will be in touch. Today, we are getting unprecedented media coverage from coast to coast to coast. We need you to amplify our voices even more. Over the next few days – we need you to share, tweet, email, and forward out this blog post and share news stories, images and stories from our facebook page and our twitter feed. We can do this! (oh and don’t forget about Cross-Canada Day of Action Against Detentions on September 17th) KEY ELEMENTS OF THE UN DECISION This is the first time United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has rendered a decision involving Canada since 1994 which is as far back as information is available for. The UN has called for Immigration Detention to be the policy of last resort but in Canada over 85,000 people have been detained under the current Federal government. Immigration detention is unjust, immoral, jail without trial or charge. Now the UN is saying its also against international legal norms. Its time to end immigration detention. The UN has reiterated that detention must be for the shortest time period possible — Canada on the other hand is one of the only Western countries that does not have a time limit on immigration detention resulting in people being detained for up to 10 years. Immigrant detainees and their allies are calling for a 90 day limit on immigration detention. The UN has issued this Opinion because it found that immigrants in Canada do not have access to real judicial review processes. This confirms what government documents have revealed about political interference in detention reviews, and what immigrants and their allies know — the current judicial oversight of the program is a farce. You have to seek permission to go to Federal Court, which usually gets denied. Even if you get permissions, case-law or previous decisions mean that detention can’t be challenged. The End Immigration Detention Network is calling for an overhaul of the Detention and Judicial Review processes. The UN insists immigration enforcement’s inability to establish someone’s identity, or to obtain travel documents from countries of origin are not grounds to detain people. The UN goes a step further – even if those difficulties arise from non-cooperation of the detainee — there are still not enough grounds to keep someone in jail. These are the two of the most common reasons why immigrants are held in detention. These people must be released. No one should be held in maximum security prisons. MAINSTREAM MEDIA COVERAGE – PLEASE SHARE will be updated all day at endimmigrationdetention/2014/07/24/untocanada/ please check often +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Email: [email protected] Web: toronto.nooneisillegal.org Join our low traffic email announcements list https://lists.riseup.net/www/subrequest/nooneisillegal Like and follow facebook/groups/NoOneIsIllegalToronto/ facebook/NoOneIsIllegalNetwork wtwitter/nooneisillegal youtube/nooneisillegal Support us toronto.nooneisillegal.org/support Organize with us toronto.nooneisillegal.org/meetings No One Is Illegal-Toronto is an all volunteer grassroots migrant justice organization that fights for livelihood, food, education, healthcare, childcare, shelter, accessible services, freedom of movement, justice and dignity for all people, particularly undocumented and migrant worker communities in Toronto. We also act in solidarity with Indigenous movements for self-determination and organize against wars, economic and environmental attacks that push people out of their homes in the first place. Who is your MP? If you dont know you can use this website to find out: parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseofCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx?Menu=HOC
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:57:28 +0000
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