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News Release Press Release: Rights Group Sues to Stop Wardens from Placing Prisoners in Long-term Solitary Confinement

Posted on October 13, 2021

News Release MEDIA ADVISORY OF PRESS CONFERENCE: Rights group to announce initiative to stop solitary confinement in prisons

Posted on October 12, 2021

News Release Press Release: Civil Liberties Group and Legal Observers Condemn RCMP Actions at Fairy Creek

Posted on May 21, 2021

News Release Vancouver Police Endanger Indigenous Women and Child on MMIWG Day of Awareness

Posted on May 7, 2021

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Supreme Court Rules that Law Restricting Youth Appeal Rights is Constitutional

Posted on May 7, 2021

News Release BCCLA Response to New BC Travel Restrictions (COVID-19) Order No. 2

Posted on April 30, 2021

News Release Civil Liberties, Indigenous Rights, and Community Groups Respond to BC Travel Restrictions Order

Posted on April 23, 2021

News Release Coalition of Organizations Call for End to Vancouver Police Department Trespass Prevention Program

Posted on January 28, 2021

News Release Press Release: Alberta Court of Appeal Denies Benefits to Young Adults Raised in Government Care

Posted on January 27, 2021

News Release PRESS RELEASE: Civil Liberties Group Calls for BC to Revise Policy that Separates Care Home Residents from Loved Ones

Posted on December 17, 2020

News Release PRESS RELEASE: Civil Liberties Group and Advocates Condemn RCMP Spying; Cite Unconstitutional Chilling Effect across Canada

Posted on December 15, 2020

News Release In Memory of Joseph J. Arvay (1949 – 2020)

Posted on December 7, 2020

News Release Press Release: Prisoner Challenges Law that Authorizes Extreme Form of Solitary Confinement

Posted on November 9, 2020

News Release Press release: Supreme Court Rules Corporations Do Not Have a Constitutional Right to Be Free from Cruelty

Posted on November 5, 2020

News Release Media Advisory: BCCLA at Alberta Court of Appeal to Protect Benefits for Young Adults Leaving Government Care

Posted on October 20, 2020

News Release BCCLA Reacts: Supreme Court of Canada Rules Law Abolishing Peremptory Challenges is Constitutional

Posted on October 8, 2020

News Release Media Advisory: BCCLA at Supreme Court of Canada to Fight for Jury Diversity

Posted on October 6, 2020

News Release Civil Liberties organization goes to court against Alberta legislation giving government sweeping new powers without legislative oversight

Posted on September 14, 2020

News Release Civil Liberties and Indigenous Rights Groups Call on CRCC to Immediately Take Conduct of Investigation into Wet’suwet’en Land Defender’s Police Complaint

Posted on August 27, 2020

News Release Press Release: Rights Groups Call for Names of VPD Officers Engaged in Misconduct during Street Check Review Ride-Alongs

Posted on August 6, 2020

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