“Nader is a 46 year old Iranian refugee who had been detained and imprisoned by Canadian Border Services Agency since 2005. Nader spent over SIX years behind bars, without any substantive charges, under the jurisdiction of the Immigration Act. His length of detention has been unprecedented in Canada and Nader had been on a seven-week hunger strike to protest his ongoing, essentially indefinite detention.”
“Given the length of time that Nader was in detention, we know that his release was a direct result of the community organizing and pressure that was slowly building around this situation over the past six weeks…We are inspired by the courage and steadfastness of Nader, who reached out and spoke out despite the fear of further punishment behind bars. Despite a system that silences refugees and forces migrants to remain subservient, we know that when we fight together we can break these chains. In the context of increasing detentions and deportations facilitating prison expansion and a government that insists on treating racialized migrants as expendable commodities, we re-affirm dignity and self-determination in the movement for migrant justice.”
-Taken from No One is Illegal Vancouver
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No one is free when others are oppressed…
Niagara Migrant Hunger Strikers Support Network 