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Canada Pledges to Examine Detention of Refugees

HeadlineMay 20, 2016

The Canadian government is pledging to examine its own practice of detaining asylum seekers, after a string of deaths inside detention centers. One refugee died on Saturday at the Edmonton Remand Centre, while two other refugees died while in the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency this spring in Ontario.

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