A number of immigration detainees have begun a hunger strike at two Ontario prisons to protest conditions and to demand a meeting with Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale. A group of immigration detainees on a hunger strike at two Ontario prisons is demanding to meet Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale. "We would like immigration detention to end and something more fair or realistic be worked out," Toby Clark, who has been in immigration detention since August 2014, said in a statement. The End Immigration Detention Network, an advocacy group, said detainees at the Toronto East Detention Centre are also on a hunger strike. According to End Immigration Detention Network, the detainees went on a hunger strike earlier this year in April.

Source: CBC News July 13, 2016 03:33 UTC