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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

News Release Hard questions for CBSA as coroner’s inquest into in-custody death of Lucía Vega Jiménez begins

Posted on September 29, 2014

News Release CBSA death in custody: BCCLA to seek answers in Coroner’s inquest into death of Lucia Vega Jiménez at YVR

Posted on September 15, 2014

News Release BCCLA successfully applies to vary publication ban in criminal case that raises alleged concerns about police tactics

Posted on July 3, 2014

News Release BCCLA reacts to Independent Investigations Office appointing civilian review of Matters case

Posted on June 16, 2014

News Release BCCLA argues for border police oversight at Senate committee in Ottawa

Posted on March 31, 2014

News Release Spying on activists: BCCLA complaints move to next level

Posted on March 27, 2014

News Release Seven Years of Inaction: Rights organizations call for oversight mechanism in response to CBSA abuses

Posted on March 5, 2014

News Release Eight years of federal inaction: Groups to call for independent oversight of Canada Border Services Agency

Posted on March 4, 2014

News Release BCCLA reacts to coroner’s inquest announcement in death of CBSA detainee Lucia Vega Jiménez

Posted on February 25, 2014

News Release Groups call for independent investigation into Jiménez’s death in custody; deliver petition with 7,000 signatures to CBSA offices

Posted on February 5, 2014

News Release Appeal of police officer’s conviction for shooting of Bill Gillespie to be heard this morning

Posted on February 3, 2014

News Release BCCLA: troubling report that CBSA got confidentiality agreement from deceased woman’s family

Posted on January 29, 2014

News Release BCCLA reacts to death of woman in Canada Border Services custody

Posted on January 28, 2014

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