Dec 14, 2020 | News
Jail guards violated use-of-force policies in fatal restraint of Soleiman Faqiri, court documents suggest | CBC News Shackled, pepper-sprayed, and lying face down wearing a spit hood. Nearly four years to the day that Soleiman Faqiri died on the floor of a jail cell,...
Oct 24, 2020 | News
Protesters rally over not-guilty verdict in death of Abdirahman Abdi Four days after an Ottawa police constable was acquitted of all criminal charges in the death of Abdirahman Abdi, more than one hundred protesters gathered Saturday to voice outrage at the verdict...
Oct 9, 2020 | News
With justice denied to Soleiman Faqiri, his family are forced to suffer their loss over and over again I was listening to a podcast with French sociologist Rachida Brahim called “Racism Kills Twice,” when I heard the news that Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will not...
Sep 28, 2020 | News
Troubled London jail’s inmates forgotten amid pandemic: Grieving families All through the pandemic, while everyone’s attention turned elsewhere, the Struthers family has kept a weekly and often lonely vigil outside...
Sep 21, 2020 | News
Travelling rally trains spotlight on jailhouse dangers for mentally ill inmates Yusuf Faqiri pledges to continue speaking out about the 2016 in-custody death of his brother in a jail northeast of...
Sep 19, 2020 | News
Family of Soleiman Faqiri not giving up fight for justice, mental health reforms “This is my brother, he had to a story to tell, and he was given to my mother in a body bag,” Yusuf...
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