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Spain responsible for violence against woman in C-section case, UN body finds

FILE PHOTO: Sculpture is covered with black mask during a demonstration for women's rights on International Women's Day, in Oviedo, Spain March 8, 2018. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso/File Photo

Spain should offer reparations to a woman who underwent a caesarean section without her consent with her arms strapped down, a United Nations committee found on Thursday.

Madrid was found to be responsible for "obstetric violence" against an unnamed Spanish woman who said medics at a public hospital in Donostia, Spain induced her labour prematurely, without her consent, the committee said.

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