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Coronavirus fears spark calls for migrants to be released from B.C. holding centre

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A group of protesters outside the Surrey Immigration Holding Centre on Sunday joined a nationwide call for detained migrants to be released from custody amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The protest was one of five that took place outside centres in Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Ont., and Montreal in partnership with Solidarity Across Borders, a migrant justice group based in Montreal.

The so-called Multi-City Caravan Against Imprisonment was sparked by an eight-day hunger strike started by several migrants detained at the Laval Immigration Monitoring Centre in Quebec.

The strike was held in order to gain release and medical attention for the detainees, who claimed they were being pressured and intimidated by centre officials who were

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