Cageprisoners Press Release (UK), 26 January 2011

The Government’s response to the control order regime, announced today, has utterly failed in seeking to balance due process for detainees against existent security concerns. The proposals that have been mooted fail to deal with the use of secret evidence and totally ignore the plight of those who continue to be detained under immigration bail orders. Unlike the conditions the men have been subjected to, the key point of concern for all has been the secret evidence that has been used against them.The retention of this fundamental assault on the rule of law will be retained, combined with the use of handpicked barristers (known as special advocates) is now polluting the British legal system to the extent that a two-tier criminal justice system has been constructed. Any individual identified as a suspect is faced with the impossible task of challenging the state.

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Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star, Jan. 25 2011

An inquest has been called into the death of a Roma refugee in Toronto West Detention Centre. Jan Szamko, 31, died on Dec. 8, 2009, two days after he was supposed to have been deported to the Czech Republic. An autopsy concluded he died of a pre-existing heart condition.

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By Mohammed Adam, Postmedia News, Jan. 21, 2011

OTTAWA — Saying his client is innocent, Ottawa lawyer Matt Webber vowed Friday to fight a deportation order against Mohamed Harkat all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, if necessary.

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Al Jazeera, 20 January 2011

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In the past two years, a record number of undocumented immigrants have been deported out of the United States – most of them Mexican.

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By SUNNY DHILLON, Globe and Mail, Jan. 12, 2011

I’m not a Tamil Tiger – I only played one in the movies, an MV Sun Sea passenger essentially told border officials soon after arriving in Canada.

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