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RSS FeedsImmigration detainee Ebrahim Toure finally free after more than five years
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22 september 2018 03:23:06

 
Immigration detainee Ebrahim Toure finally free after more than five years
(The Star Theatre)
 


Ebrahim Toure’s first steps as a free man in five-and-a-half years were hesitant. He paused briefly outside the back gates of the Immigration Holding Centre, clutching a garbage bag of his belongings.Then the four friends who came to pick him up cheered and ran to him from across the parking lot. Gebere Mageraga reached Toure first, wrapping him in a bear hug. Toure grinned. “I’m just so happy,” he said.The 47-year-old failed refugee claimant was arrested by the Canada Border Services Agency on Feb. 23, 2013. He was jailed indefinitely because immigration authorities believed he would not show up for his deportation if it was ever arranged. In the end, the CBSA conceded what Toure’s lawyers had argued for years — that they could not deport him.Jared Will, Toure’s lawyer, said he was relieved his client was released, but the outcome is bittersweet. “It’s something that should have happened a very long time ago.”Nothing about the case, other than the length of time Toure has spent behind bars, has substantially changed over the past few years.“The reason he has been released is because the (Immigration and Refugee Board) finally acknowledged there is no prospect of deporting him,” Will said. “But it’s clear that there has never really been a prospect of deporting him.”Read more:Caged by Canada | Part 1: Four years lostCaged by Canada | Part 2: Canada’s longest caseCaged by Canada | Part 3: The damning dataToure, who was profiled as part of the Star’s investigation into Canada’s immigration detention system, believes he was born in The Gambia and may also have a right to citizenship in Guinea, where he spent much of his childhood. But he can’t prove his claim to either country, and neither would issue him travel documents.The CBSA accused him of intentionally thwarting their efforts to remove him, but he insisted he had given them all the information he ...


 
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