AustraliaThe GuardianIndigenous woman shackled to hospital bed while in labour in Queensland
An Indigenous woman was shackled to a hospital bed during labour in Queensland last weekend, days after Labor and the Coalition blocked a bill to ban the practice.
Birth happens days before Labor and Coalition block bill to ban ‘barbaric practice’ of shackling incarcerated women during childbirth
An incarcerated Aboriginal woman was shackled to a hospital bed in Queensland while giving birth via caesarean section to a premature baby last weekend.
Advocacy group Sisters Inside said hospital staff were in tears trying to get prison officers to remove the shackles, which were only taken off on Friday.
Just days earlier, both Labor and the Coalition blocked a Senate bill that would have banned shackling incarcerated women during childbirth, despite Australia signing UN rules against the practice.
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