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Tamil migrants aboard Ocean Lady survived despite harrowing odds, prosecutor tells bail hearing

Tamil migrants photographed on deck of the MV Ocean Lady. Submitted photo/RCMP Federal Border Integrity Program files KEITH... (more...)

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The ruling on Friday by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Arne Silverman came as the trial of four men accused in the smuggling of 76 Sri Lankan Tamils aboard the MV Ocean Lady (pictured) off the coast of B.C. in 2009 was about to begin. Adrian Lam/Times Colonist files

Suspected human smugglers free following B.C. judge’s ruling

The ruling on Friday by B.C. Supreme Court Justice Arne Silverman came as the trial of four men accused in the smuggling... (more...)

NRI Affairs Minister Bikram Singh Majithia said the two new laws - the Compulsory Registration of Marriage Act and the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act - will be tabled in the forthcoming assembly session beginning Dec 17. Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images

LEGISLATION: Punjab to introduce measures against human smuggling, fraud marriages

NRI Affairs Minister Bikram Singh Majithia said the two new laws – the Compulsory Registration of Marriage Act and... (more...)

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