Prison Covid

• Two inmates, 18 staff at B.C. prison test positive for COVID

  COVID testing is offered to inmates and staff, corrections said. Employees must take a rapid test and provide a negative test result before entering the site.

  Health

  Dec 31, 2021
  
• Canadian jailed in Egypt returns home, needs medical treatment: family

  Yasser Albaz, a Canadian engineer who was arrested at Cairo airport at the end of a business trip in February 2019, has been released and is back in Canada but needs medical treatment, his family said on Thursday.

  Canada

  Jul 2, 2020
  
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• Her dad may be dying in an Egyptian prison. She says Trudeau’s response is ‘infuriating’

  Amal Ahmed Albaz has been fighting tirelessly to bring her dad, Yasser Albaz, home. That fight recently became urgent when the family received word he may have contracted COVID-19.

  Canada

  Jun 22, 2020
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• B.C. First Nation locks down after contact with released inmate who tested positive for coronavirus

  "I would have assumed that the Mission Institution would have to make sure that there was no doubt that it was completely cleared up before they released anyone," said Chief Joe Alphonse.

  Apr 22, 2020