The household of a mentally ailing man who died in an Ontario jail cell in 2016 says it hopes a provincial inquest set to begin later this yr will present solutions about his loss of life.
Soleiman Faqiri died on Dec. 15, 2016, after being overwhelmed, pepper sprayed and restrained face-down in a segregation cell on the Central East Correctional Facility in Lindsay, Ont. the place the 30-year-old was held awaiting a medical analysis at a psychiatric facility.
Faqiri’s elder brother Yusuf says the Ontario’s chief coroner workplace notified the household that an inquest will start on Nov. 20 to look at the circumstances surrounding Soleiman’s loss of life.
He says his household will lastly get to be taught particulars of what occurred throughout the 11 days that his brother spent in jail earlier than his loss of life.
Faqiri says his brother was recognized with schizophrenia when he was 19 years outdated and shouldn’t have been imprisoned.
Ontario’s chief forensic pathologist present in a 2021 report that Faqiri died following a violent wrestle within the segregation cell with the guards.
