The Imprisoned Blogger has been an ongoing collective project bringing awareness to the broken system of immigration detention in Canada. These stories of struggle through immigrant perspective, along with more, have now been published in a book!
The Imprisoned Blogger: Real Stories of Struggle with Immigration Detention in Canada, by Othman Hamdan, is available on Amazon.

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