THE NEVER ENDING ABILITY OF CANADIAN INSTITUTIONS TO COVER UP BOTH IMMORAL AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITY

It makes MOE/MECP corruption look like child's play. It makes WSIB and Ontario coverups of the fatal occupational damage to rubber workers look like kindergarten stuff. It even makes the failures and negligence of staff at Kitchener's Prison for Women in regards to the death of Ashley Smith almost look like small potatoes. I am talking about the death while in custody of Soleiman Faqiri. Soleiman was studying engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2004 but after a car crash was diagnosed with schizophrenia and couldn't continue his studies. The Waterloo Region Record published a significant article regarding the life and death of Mr. Faqiri on March 21, 2019 (pg. A8). Two months earlier in January 2019, the Fifth Estate had televised a show about Mr. Faqiri's death at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay on December 15, 2016. According to the Fifth Estate this particular Ontario prison has led the number of complaints to the Ombudsman about their treatment of inmates for the last three years in a row.

According to both autopsy evidence as well as a first hand witness's account, Mr. Faqiri while awaiting a transfer to a mental health facility, was quite simply and frankly, beaten to death by multiple guards at the Lindsay Correctional Centre. As a human being suffering from mental health issues he should not have been in jail. He should not have been in isolation as he was. And he sure as hell should not have been the victim of a beating while restrained/handcuffed by multiple guards that included fists, pepper spray, kicks, neck compression's and more.

Pure physical evidence combined with first hand witness testimony should be way more than adequate to bring any wrong doers to justice if that is what the evidence says. Unfortunately in this province/country it is not. Mr. Faqiri died in custody as a direct result of a beating that included pepper spray (twice), head and body trauma, physical restraints and compression of his chest and neck area. He was mentally ill and it was the moral and legal duty of ALL those responsible for him to protect him from harm. Not to kill him.

I have seen or heard exactly nothing about this case over the last year. Shame on all our authorities including the Ministry of Corrections and the province of Ontario. Supposedly the Ontario Provincial Police have reopened the investigation. I'm not holding my breathe based upon the skills and mindsets of politicians, career bureaucrats, unionized jail guards and all the other entitled folks who believe that laws do not apply to them, only to us lesser folk.