Pam Shiraldini
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Cold, ill-fed, terrified: Ex-detainee recalls Lindsay jail ordealAn immigration detainee held for months at the provincial jail in Lindsay remembers inadequate food, bone-numbing cold and threats from terrifying criminals.CanadaDec 17, 2014
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Iranian refugee’s jail ordeal: 173 days and counting – with no end in sightIranian refugee Masoud Hajivand will stay in jail in Lindsay, Ont. until at least January after an Immigration and Refugee Board official rejected a bail proposal offered by supporters today.CanadaDec 17, 2014
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Behind closed doors, feds decide to keep Iranian refugee claimant in jailIn a hearing held Monday without his lawyer, family or surety present, a representative of Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board assented to a federal lawyer's request to keep Masoud Hajivand behind bars.CanadaNov 24, 2014
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‘I’m not a criminal’: Jailed with no charge, no sentence, no oversightMasoud Hajivand is one of more than 200 immigration detainees held in Ontario's notoriously crowded jails, many of them without charge. All of them, Global News has learned, have been hidden for years from Red Cross attempts to ascertain their well-being.CanadaNov 5, 2014
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