Lawyers for a Saskatchewan woman want the abduction and other charges against her to be stayed, citing alleged human rights violations including unnecessary strip searches and denial of medical care.
In a court application, they list alleged individual violations against Dawn Walker, but say these cannot be separated from systemic violations against Indigenous women in the justice system.
“This Indigenous woman and mother’s experience is an extreme example of how the police and justice system in Saskatchewan criminalize and incarcerate the same Indigenous women and children that they have failed to protect from violence in the first place,” states the application.
University of Dalhousie law professor Elaine
