Protesting in the court is forbidden, despite other laws guaranteeing the right to peaceful protest, so it wasn’t very surprising they were arrested, experts said. But the mistreatment they say they encountered in more than 30 hours of detention may violate constitutional and international rights.
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“They seemed to be designed with maximum cruelty in mind,” Paterson said.
Once inside the DC jail, the women say they encountered blood- and feces-splattered cells that resembled dog kennels – but “you wouldn’t keep a dog there”, Baker said. “It was the most inhumane place I’d ever been.”
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