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News Release Media Advisory: Vancouver Police Board to respond to VPD report on street checks

Posted on September 25, 2018

News Release Media Release: Death of man in CBSA custody after altercation on plane requires independent investigation, rights watchdogs say

Posted on August 10, 2018

News Release Press Release: BCCLA launches electronic devices handbook to protect privacy at the border

Posted on August 1, 2018

News Release Media Advisory: BCCLA launches electronic devices handbook to protect privacy at the border

Posted on July 31, 2018

News Release Press Release: Civil Liberties and First Nations groups file amendment to complaint on VPD street checks; concern with over representation of Indigenous women in new numbers released.

Posted on July 12, 2018

News Release RELEASE: Civil liberties and First Nations groups launch complaint on discriminatory police stops; call for investigation

Posted on June 14, 2018

News Release Workshops in Northern BC on rights that apply during interactions with police.

Posted on February 1, 2018

News Release Complaint filed against RCMP for alleged evidence destruction and use of force in police-involved death of First Nations man in Prince George

Posted on January 16, 2018

News Release BCCLA reacts to new national security legislation (Bill C-59)

Posted on June 20, 2017

News Release Oversight at the Border: New BCCLA report proposes independent accountability for CBSA

Posted on June 14, 2017

News Release BCCLA reacts to court ruling that pair charged with terrorism offenses were entrapped by the RCMP

Posted on July 29, 2016

News Release “Border Security” TV show finally cancelled after Privacy Commissioner rules CBSA acted illegally

Posted on June 13, 2016

News Release Media Release: Second death in CBSA custody in a week raises urgent questions, rights watchdogs say

Posted on March 15, 2016

News Release Media Release: Human rights groups react to news of another death in immigration detention

Posted on March 8, 2016

News Release RELEASE – One year after Lucía Vega Jiménez’s death, rights organizations condemn federal failure to make CBSA accountable

Posted on February 12, 2015

News Release BCCLA and Pivot respond to Civilian Monitor report on the IIO’s Gregory Matters shooting death investigation

Posted on November 18, 2014

News Release BCCLA reacts to revelations of CBSA deaths in custody

Posted on November 5, 2014

News Release BCCLA reacts to Coroner’s verdict in Lucía Vega Jiménez inquest

Posted on October 8, 2014

News Release UBCIC and BCCLA react to video of Robert Wright’s brutal take-down while in Terrace RCMP cells

Posted on October 3, 2014

News Release Lucia Vega Jiménez referred for mental health assessment while detained, never got one

Posted on September 30, 2014

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