ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “Indigenous prisoner who was strip searched had her human rights breached, report finds | ABC News” – below is their description.
A review into an incident at Canberra’s jail where an Indigenous woman was forcibly strip-searched has found that she had her human rights violated.
The 37-year old woman was held down and had her clothes removed, or cut off, during an incident at Canberra’s Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) earlier this year.
She wrote a letter describing the incident, where she said she felt “absolute fear and shame”.
ABC News (Australia) YouTube Channel
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