'There's only so long people can be suppressed until you have to do something about it,' says Inuk woman
Labrador's Beatrice Hunter is speaking out from behind bars in a wide-ranging interview and detailing her experiences at an almost all-male prison, being "bullied" by the judge who ordered her into custody, blasting "British colonial" laws and vowing to continue to "stand up to Nalcor."
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"I'm fighting for my rights," Hunter told CBC's Ted Blades, host of On The Go, inside Her Majesty's Penitentiary on Tuesday.
"It's not easy. Just because you believe in something, you shouldn't be locked up for it."
Hunter was transferred from Happy Valley-Goose Bay to HMP last week, after she refused to promise to stay away from the Muskrat Falls construction site — a condition imposed on her after a previous protest at the site. She ended up at HMP because the women's correctional facility in Clarenville is at capacity.
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