Hunger Striker Toby Clark
Call Minister Ralph Goodale and ask him to meet with striking detainees. Call: 613-947-1153 Email: [email protected] Tweet: @RalphGoodale
Over 50 Black and Brown immigrants in two maximum security prisons in Ontario began refusing food on the morning of Monday, July 11th.
Their demands are simple: they don’t want to be jailed indefinitely, without charges or trial, in maximum security
prisons.
The men are taking a courageous stance, refusing to allow their humanity to be stripped away behind bars. They are calling on all of us to support them. Here’s what you can do: endimmigrationdetention.com/category/ju…016-strike/
My name is Toby Clark
I have been on immigration hold since August 2014.
I have been in Lindsay Central East Correctional Centre, and currently in the East Detention Centre in Scarborough
The reason we are going on hunger strike is because we don't like the conditions that we are living in and the laws are kind of hard on immigration. Some people are held years and there is nothing that they can do about it.
We’d like to meet with the MPs. We’d like something to be done about immigration detentions. Because it’s sad that people are separated from their family Canada for so long, they don't get a second chance. One thing I’ve learned in the past is that Canada is supposedly big on not separating families but it doesn’t seem that way with immigration.
We would like immigration detention to end or something more fair or realistic be worked out. For example, if your country doesn’t issue travel documents within 90 days, I think we should be released. I think everyone, travel documents or not, should get a chance also.
We would like to meet with MPs and hopefully we can work something out. To me, the way immigration detentions is right now, it’s cruel and unusual punishment. So we really need to look into this immigration detention situation.
Thank you.