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Jailing of indigenous assault victim sparks debate in Canada

MASKWACIS, Alberta — A homeless indigenous woman, victim of a stabbing and sexual assault, was forced to testify in shackles, then jailed in a cell alongside that of her attacker in a case that has roused indignation in Canada about the treatment of the people it calls the First Nations.

The Alberta provincial justice minister has launched two investigations, the chief judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta is reviewing the decision to detain the woman and activists are denouncing a legal system they say is chronically unfair to the indigenous.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/jailing-of-indigenous-assault-victim-sparks-debate-in-canada/2017/06/21/f19890d2-5691-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html?utm_term=.0bfbbfb62f06

 

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