Child Q: strip-searches are a violation of human rights
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Former director of education at the London borough where Child Q was humiliated said the incident reminded him of Apartheid South Africa
By Lester Holloway
The traumatic strip-search of Child Q in a Hackney school by police officers was a ‘violation of human rights’, a former director of education in the north-east London borough has said.
Professor Gus John said the humiliating intimate search on the 15-year-old girl reminded him of how children were treated in apartheid South Africa, and sa...
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