Canada: 60 Migrants Detained Indefinitely Launch Hunger Strike

Nearly 60 immigrant men at two Ontario maximum security prisons Thursday entered the fourth day of a hunger strike to protest the Canadian policy of indefinite immigration detention that denies immigrants access to any judicial process. Between 2006 and 2014, under the Conservative government of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada jailed over 87,000 immigrants …

7 Teenage Deaths, but No Answers for Aboriginal Canadians

They were teenagers from tiny indigenous Canadian communities, isolated by a maze of lakes and forest. Thunder Bay, a metropolis by comparison, offered them their only opportunity for a high school education. Instead, the students met death. Indigenous leaders and parents of the dead had long called for investigations, suspecting the students were victims of …

Journalist Marie Colvin died trying to get her shoes, her paper reports

Marie Colvin, a veteran correspondent who was killed in Syria last week, died trying to get her shoes so she could escape a shelling attack, her paper reported Sunday. As is the custom in Syria, she took off her shoes upon entering a building that was serving as a makeshift press center. She was on …

Israeli military’s new chief rabbi implied soldiers can rape in war

The man chosen as the Israeli military’s new chief rabbi has previously implied that soldiers would be permitted to rape women in war. Karim was at the center of a media controversy in Israel in 2012, when it was revealed that, in 2003, he suggested on a religious website that soldiers were permitted to commit …

Bully teens severely beat up man who was sticking up for refugees that were being harassed in Germany

A man in Germany who allegedly tried to stop a group of teenagers from harassing refugees was beaten up until he lost consciousness, the police reported on Wednesday. The man initially succeeded to protect the refugees and the bullies left when suddenly, one of the teenagers took the man’s briefcase and ran. The 39-year-old man …

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